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2022 Polk County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, MO went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Missouri average 3.5 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2258th 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 Polk 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 | April 21, 2022 22:15 | April 22, 2022 05:00 | 6h 45m | 3,680 | 2,978 |
| 2 | March 20, 2022 20:30 | March 20, 2022 22:45 | 2h 15m | 3,377 | 6,757 |
| 3 | November 8, 2022 19:30 | November 8, 2022 20:00 | 30m | 819 | 250 |
| 4 | November 8, 2022 22:45 | November 9, 2022 00:00 | 1h 15m | 670 | 838 |
| 5 | October 20, 2022 03:00 | October 20, 2022 06:00 | 3h | 393 | 1,179 |
| 6 | May 22, 2022 14:45 | May 22, 2022 17:00 | 2h 15m | 322 | 723 |
| 7 | October 25, 2022 13:00 | October 25, 2022 16:45 | 3h 45m | 296 | 798 |
| 8 | September 26, 2022 13:30 | September 26, 2022 17:00 | 3h 30m | 232 | 124 |
| 9 | November 7, 2022 14:15 | November 7, 2022 15:15 | 1h | 216 | 193 |
| 10 | June 26, 2022 11:15 | June 26, 2022 22:45 | 11h 30m | 206 | 770 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 16 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.62 | 1.5 hrs | 1.14 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 0.66 | 1.9 hrs | 0.61 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/polk-county