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2020 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 100th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2674th 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 Cole 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 | July 19, 2020 21:45 | July 20, 2020 22:30 | 1d | 2,715 | 9,407 |
| 2 | March 9, 2020 12:00 | March 9, 2020 12:30 | 30m | 2,134 | 1,067 |
| 3 | August 1, 2020 14:00 | August 2, 2020 05:30 | 15h 30m | 1,604 | 2,408 |
| 4 | July 23, 2020 23:30 | July 24, 2020 04:30 | 5h | 1,176 | 2,939 |
| 5 | June 13, 2020 18:45 | June 13, 2020 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,121 | 2,029 |
| 6 | November 22, 2020 20:45 | November 22, 2020 22:45 | 2h | 936 | 1,341 |
| 7 | July 2, 2020 16:15 | July 2, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 924 | 236 |
| 8 | April 30, 2020 07:15 | April 30, 2020 09:15 | 2h | 838 | 1,110 |
| 9 | August 31, 2020 14:15 | September 1, 2020 02:30 | 12h 15m | 630 | 1,998 |
| 10 | March 22, 2020 10:30 | March 22, 2020 13:15 | 2h 45m | 628 | 1,101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 31 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Cole 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 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 0.94 | 89 min | 0.81 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2020 | 83 min | 0.77 | 83 min | 0.77 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/cole-county