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2020 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2416th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 11, 2020 04:15 | January 12, 2020 04:45 | 1d | 3,366 | 12K |
| 2 | January 16, 2020 13:00 | January 16, 2020 17:15 | 4h 15m | 2,872 | 5,099 |
| 3 | August 28, 2020 12:45 | August 28, 2020 15:15 | 2h 30m | 1,952 | 3,820 |
| 4 | September 17, 2020 13:15 | September 17, 2020 17:15 | 4h | 1,672 | 2,174 |
| 5 | July 16, 2020 01:15 | July 16, 2020 15:00 | 13h 45m | 1,077 | 4,848 |
| 6 | May 14, 2020 15:45 | May 14, 2020 21:30 | 5h 45m | 1,065 | 593 |
| 7 | March 26, 2020 12:30 | March 26, 2020 17:30 | 5h | 871 | 750 |
| 8 | June 2, 2020 04:45 | June 2, 2020 08:00 | 3h 15m | 767 | 1,887 |
| 9 | December 16, 2020 20:45 | December 16, 2020 22:00 | 1h 15m | 746 | 933 |
| 10 | July 23, 2020 18:30 | July 23, 2020 21:00 | 2h 30m | 550 | 826 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 37 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Cape Girardeau County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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) | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 0.86 | 86 min | 0.71 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | - | 5.9 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2020 | 73 min | 0.75 | 73 min | 0.75 |
| City of Jackson - (MO) | 2018 | 52 min | 0.84 | - | - |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| SEMO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 34,407 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. Cape Girardeau County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape Girardeau County, MO annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/missouri/cape-girardeau-county