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2025 Cape Girardeau County, MO Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Cape Girardeau County, MO went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 422K customer-hours (Missouri average 8.9 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 115 Missouri counties and 634th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MO, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Missouri customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape Girardeau County, 2025
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 5, 2025 12:30 | January 15, 2025 18:45 | 10d 6h | 7,864 | 258K |
| 2 | May 16, 2025 21:15 | May 18, 2025 18:30 | 1d 21h | 5,127 | 17K |
| 3 | April 7, 2025 05:30 | April 7, 2025 20:00 | 14h 30m | 4,958 | 13K |
| 4 | March 15, 2025 04:15 | March 18, 2025 02:30 | 2d 22h | 3,262 | 26K |
| 5 | April 3, 2025 00:00 | April 6, 2025 21:45 | 3d 21h | 2,883 | 54K |
| 6 | January 22, 2025 02:45 | January 22, 2025 04:30 | 1h 45m | 2,694 | 1,133 |
| 7 | May 20, 2025 05:45 | May 21, 2025 01:15 | 19h 30m | 1,962 | 7,380 |
| 8 | April 16, 2025 14:30 | April 16, 2025 16:45 | 2h 15m | 1,405 | 1,032 |
| 9 | December 25, 2025 08:15 | December 25, 2025 10:15 | 2h | 1,303 | 1,305 |
| 10 | July 7, 2025 19:00 | July 8, 2025 01:45 | 6h 45m | 1,169 | 1,619 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 53 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/missouri/cape-girardeau-county