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2022 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.5 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1996th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 22, 2022 22:45 | December 24, 2022 07:30 | 1d 8h | 3,265 | 35K |
| 2 | May 27, 2022 06:30 | May 27, 2022 10:15 | 3h 45m | 2,948 | 4,448 |
| 3 | October 7, 2022 14:30 | October 7, 2022 17:15 | 2h 45m | 2,573 | 2,222 |
| 4 | November 30, 2022 01:00 | November 30, 2022 08:15 | 7h 15m | 2,470 | 1,801 |
| 5 | November 4, 2022 15:30 | November 4, 2022 17:00 | 1h 30m | 2,118 | 3,177 |
| 6 | July 18, 2022 01:30 | July 19, 2022 03:45 | 1d 2h | 1,762 | 14K |
| 7 | February 24, 2022 21:00 | February 25, 2022 17:00 | 20h | 1,049 | 6,569 |
| 8 | July 29, 2022 19:15 | July 29, 2022 22:15 | 3h | 753 | 767 |
| 9 | May 25, 2022 12:45 | May 25, 2022 15:45 | 3h | 692 | 352 |
| 10 | June 17, 2022 12:00 | June 18, 2022 01:30 | 13h 30m | 576 | 2,514 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2022, 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) | 2022 | 2.5 hrs | 0.92 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2022 | 7.7 hrs | - | 5.9 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.14 | 2.3 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/missouri/cape-girardeau-county