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2022 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.5 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2567th 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 Cole 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 | January 9, 2022 13:30 | January 9, 2022 21:30 | 8h | 2,898 | 3,958 |
| 2 | February 13, 2022 19:45 | February 13, 2022 22:30 | 2h 45m | 2,678 | 3,768 |
| 3 | December 22, 2022 23:45 | December 23, 2022 21:30 | 21h 45m | 1,449 | 10K |
| 4 | May 5, 2022 05:45 | May 5, 2022 07:45 | 2h | 1,348 | 2,696 |
| 5 | January 15, 2022 21:45 | January 15, 2022 23:45 | 2h | 1,345 | 1,340 |
| 6 | May 17, 2022 21:15 | May 18, 2022 02:45 | 5h 30m | 1,173 | 2,700 |
| 7 | December 13, 2022 07:15 | December 13, 2022 08:45 | 1h 30m | 1,029 | 1,544 |
| 8 | March 9, 2022 15:00 | March 9, 2022 20:00 | 5h | 934 | 473 |
| 9 | November 15, 2022 06:45 | November 15, 2022 09:15 | 2h 30m | 921 | 1,846 |
| 10 | July 27, 2022 08:15 | July 27, 2022 11:30 | 3h 15m | 874 | 1,738 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 38 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 Cole 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 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 0.81 | 81 min | 0.64 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2022 | 2.1 hrs | 1.02 | 1.8 hrs | 0.97 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/cole-county