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2019 Polk County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Polk County, MO went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.8 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2454th 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 Polk 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 | March 31, 2019 21:30 | March 31, 2019 22:45 | 1h 15m | 866 | 313 |
| 2 | October 5, 2019 21:15 | October 5, 2019 22:00 | 45m | 635 | 395 |
| 3 | November 22, 2019 05:00 | November 22, 2019 06:15 | 1h 15m | 467 | 368 |
| 4 | May 1, 2019 01:45 | May 1, 2019 03:00 | 1h 15m | 440 | 273 |
| 5 | November 26, 2019 01:00 | November 26, 2019 13:45 | 12h 45m | 402 | 2,645 |
| 6 | September 23, 2019 04:15 | September 23, 2019 07:30 | 3h 15m | 311 | 942 |
| 7 | January 31, 2019 21:15 | January 31, 2019 23:00 | 1h 45m | 234 | 402 |
| 8 | July 10, 2019 17:00 | July 10, 2019 21:00 | 4h | 226 | 774 |
| 9 | May 18, 2019 21:15 | May 19, 2019 02:45 | 5h 30m | 222 | 559 |
| 10 | September 16, 2019 15:15 | September 16, 2019 16:15 | 1h | 211 | 62 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 | 1.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.22 | 1.7 hrs | 0.99 |
| Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sac-Osage Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,719 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county