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2019 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 115 Missouri counties and 1062nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cole County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 23, 2019 03:15 | May 26, 2019 20:30 | 3d 17h | 13,018 | 160K |
| 2 | November 27, 2019 06:30 | November 27, 2019 15:00 | 8h 30m | 2,685 | 5,613 |
| 3 | July 22, 2019 04:30 | July 22, 2019 19:15 | 14h 45m | 2,294 | 4,465 |
| 4 | August 30, 2019 05:45 | August 30, 2019 21:15 | 15h 30m | 2,215 | 1,909 |
| 5 | January 16, 2019 00:15 | January 16, 2019 03:15 | 3h | 1,438 | 2,481 |
| 6 | August 4, 2019 14:00 | August 4, 2019 17:15 | 3h 15m | 1,128 | 1,694 |
| 7 | August 13, 2019 04:30 | August 13, 2019 09:30 | 5h | 1,037 | 907 |
| 8 | August 14, 2019 23:00 | August 15, 2019 01:00 | 2h | 786 | 200 |
| 9 | October 11, 2019 10:30 | October 11, 2019 18:00 | 7h 30m | 695 | 2,504 |
| 10 | August 11, 2019 13:30 | August 12, 2019 02:00 | 12h 30m | 629 | 1,111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 30 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Cole County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Electric Co - (MO) | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.85 | 86 min | 0.72 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2018 | 81 min | 0.64 | 62 min | 0.60 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of Missouri's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,963 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Cole County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cole County, MO annual power outage report, 2019, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/missouri/cole-county