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2024 Cole County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cole County, MO went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 106th worst of 114 Missouri counties and 2615th 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 Cole 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 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | February 8, 2024 22:15 | 38d 22h | 1,957 | 16K |
| 2 | May 7, 2024 07:15 | May 7, 2024 18:15 | 11h | 1,291 | 4,172 |
| 3 | June 10, 2024 20:00 | June 11, 2024 01:15 | 5h 15m | 1,029 | 267 |
| 4 | April 29, 2024 05:00 | April 29, 2024 07:45 | 2h 45m | 990 | 993 |
| 5 | June 22, 2024 20:15 | June 23, 2024 01:45 | 5h 30m | 987 | 2,700 |
| 6 | March 7, 2024 18:00 | March 8, 2024 14:00 | 20h | 959 | 579 |
| 7 | May 26, 2024 08:45 | May 26, 2024 13:45 | 5h | 863 | 1,244 |
| 8 | March 14, 2024 11:00 | March 14, 2024 21:30 | 10h 30m | 795 | 2,808 |
| 9 | April 1, 2024 23:15 | April 2, 2024 20:30 | 21h 15m | 659 | 3,609 |
| 10 | April 11, 2024 20:30 | April 11, 2024 21:15 | 45m | 558 | 279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 29 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.87 | 74 min | 0.72 |
| Three Rivers Electric Coop | 2024 | 2.3 hrs | 0.98 | 2.3 hrs | 0.98 |
| 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 n/a of Missouri's customers in 2024; 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, 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/cole-county