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2020 Polk County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, MO went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Missouri average 2.8 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 2208th 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 Polk 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 | May 4, 2020 19:30 | May 5, 2020 19:00 | 23h 30m | 1,174 | 6,978 |
| 2 | September 21, 2020 17:45 | September 21, 2020 19:30 | 1h 45m | 881 | 974 |
| 3 | November 14, 2020 23:30 | November 15, 2020 14:45 | 15h 15m | 549 | 1,360 |
| 4 | March 25, 2020 20:45 | March 25, 2020 21:15 | 30m | 501 | 127 |
| 5 | October 26, 2020 04:30 | October 26, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 417 | 465 |
| 6 | September 23, 2020 22:15 | September 24, 2020 03:30 | 5h 15m | 414 | 1,751 |
| 7 | January 10, 2020 20:45 | January 11, 2020 11:00 | 14h 15m | 407 | 1,119 |
| 8 | June 4, 2020 09:45 | June 4, 2020 18:45 | 9h | 394 | 1,981 |
| 9 | June 3, 2020 13:30 | June 3, 2020 16:00 | 2h 30m | 386 | 165 |
| 10 | November 18, 2020 17:15 | November 18, 2020 18:15 | 1h | 354 | 266 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 22 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2020 | 70 min | 0.78 | 66 min | 0.70 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.23 | 1.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/polk-county