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2024 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2209th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 14, 2024 13:45 | March 14, 2024 18:45 | 5h | 5,255 | 7,622 |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 12:00 | May 29, 2024 02:00 | 2d 14h | 3,207 | 33K |
| 3 | April 2, 2024 09:30 | April 3, 2024 12:45 | 1d 3h | 2,500 | 15K |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 12:00 | June 17, 2024 14:00 | 2h | 2,422 | 1,113 |
| 5 | March 3, 2024 06:45 | March 3, 2024 13:15 | 6h 30m | 1,109 | 1,017 |
| 6 | May 1, 2024 14:00 | May 1, 2024 16:15 | 2h 15m | 1,108 | 735 |
| 7 | May 24, 2024 10:00 | May 24, 2024 13:30 | 3h 30m | 890 | 1,221 |
| 8 | September 27, 2024 10:45 | September 28, 2024 23:30 | 1d 12h | 849 | 4,780 |
| 9 | December 5, 2024 12:15 | December 5, 2024 14:15 | 2h | 709 | 450 |
| 10 | August 31, 2024 19:15 | August 31, 2024 23:00 | 3h 45m | 695 | 1,731 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 38 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 0.77 | 1.6 hrs | 0.67 |
| Black River Electric Coop - (MO) | 2024 | 19.4 hrs | - | 7.5 hrs | - |
| Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) | 2024 | 2.4 hrs | 1.30 | 85 min | 0.89 |
| 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 n/a of Missouri's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/missouri/cape-girardeau-county