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2024 Polk County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, MO went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Missouri average 5.8 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 114 Missouri counties and 1690th 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 Polk 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 | September 27, 2024 12:45 | September 27, 2024 16:00 | 3h 15m | 1,888 | 5,184 |
| 2 | May 27, 2024 03:30 | May 27, 2024 16:15 | 12h 45m | 1,406 | 15K |
| 3 | October 31, 2024 05:00 | October 31, 2024 14:45 | 9h 45m | 1,252 | 9,711 |
| 4 | June 25, 2024 11:15 | June 27, 2024 19:30 | 2d 8h | 942 | 3,540 |
| 5 | January 16, 2024 02:15 | January 16, 2024 05:00 | 2h 45m | 941 | 955 |
| 6 | April 2, 2024 00:30 | April 2, 2024 16:30 | 16h | 831 | 3,084 |
| 7 | June 29, 2024 06:00 | June 29, 2024 08:00 | 2h | 532 | 287 |
| 8 | June 30, 2024 01:45 | June 30, 2024 03:45 | 2h | 471 | 824 |
| 9 | June 14, 2024 06:30 | June 14, 2024 23:15 | 16h 45m | 463 | 1,366 |
| 10 | June 24, 2024 12:45 | June 24, 2024 16:00 | 3h 15m | 414 | 321 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 23 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire District Electric Co | 2024 | 9.1 hrs | 1.95 | 1.9 hrs | 0.98 |
| Southwest Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.1 hrs | 0.84 | 3.1 hrs | 0.79 |
| 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 n/a of Missouri's customers in 2024; 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, 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/polk-county