Power outages in Missouri, by utility
Across 27 Missouri utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 3 hours in 2025 — that is 1.0× better than the national median. Missouri ranks #21 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 3 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 48.5 hrs
- Black River Electric Coop - (MO)
- Best utility
- 0.3 hrs
- City of Hannibal - (MO)
- Utilities reporting
- 27
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Missouri utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black River Electric Coop - (MO)Cooperative | 48.5 hrs2909 min | — | 16.3× worse |
| 2 | Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO)Cooperative | 28.1 hrs1688 min | 3.9 | 9.5× worse |
| 3 | City Utilities of Springfield - (MO)Municipal | 21.5 hrs1288 min | 2.3 | 7.2× worse |
| 4 | Intercounty Electric Coop Assn - (MO)Cooperative | 11.8 hrs707 min | 3.1 | 4.0× worse |
| 5 | Union Electric Co - (MO)Investor Owned | 9.9 hrs594 min | 1.2 | 3.3× worse |
| 6 | Central Missouri Elec Coop IncCooperative | 7 hrs423 min | 1.5 | 2.4× worse |
| 7 | Crawford Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 6 hrs362 min | 2.0 | 2.0× worse |
| 8 | Southwest Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 5.9 hrs356 min | 1.0 | 2.0× worse |
| 9 | City of Carthage - (MO)Municipal | 5.4 hrs321 min | 3.9 | 1.8× worse |
| 10 | Consolidated Electric CoopCooperative | 3.9 hrs233 min | 1.2 | 1.3× worse |
| 11 | Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO)Cooperative | 3.3 hrs197 min | 1.9 | 1.1× worse |
| 12 | Evergy Missouri WestInvestor Owned | 3.1 hrs183 min | 1.5 | 1.0× worse |
| 13 | Evergy MetroInvestor Owned | 3 hrs178 min | 1.5 | 1.0× worse |
| 14 | City of Kirkwood - (MO)Municipal | 2.9 hrs177 min | 2.0 | 1.0× better |
| 15 | Empire District Electric CoInvestor Owned | 2.8 hrs167 min | 1.1 | 1.1× better |
| 16 | Co-Mo Electric Coop IncCooperative | 2.6 hrs158 min | 1.1 | 1.1× better |
| 17 | Laclede Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 2.6 hrs155 min | 2.1 | 1.1× better |
| 18 | Cuivre River Electric Coop IncCooperative | 2.3 hrs135 min | 1.2 | 1.3× better |
| 19 | Three Rivers Electric CoopCooperative | 2.2 hrs130 min | 1.0 | 1.4× better |
| 20 | Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR)Cooperative | 2.1 hrs129 min | 2.0 | 1.4× better |
| 21 | West Central Electric Coop Inc - (MO)Cooperative | 1.8 hrs109 min | 0.9 | 1.6× better |
| 22 | City of Columbia - (MO)Municipal | 1.6 hrs97 min | 0.7 | 1.8× better |
| 23 | City of Monett - (MO)Municipal | 1.4 hrs84 min | 0.9 | 2.1× better |
| 24 | Platte-Clay Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 1.3 hrs79 min | 1.1 | 2.3× better |
| 25 | Boone Electric CoopCooperative | 1.1 hrs67 min | 0.7 | 2.7× better |
| 26 | City of Rolla - (MO)Municipal | 0.9 hrs52 min | 3.0 | 3.4× better |
| 27 | City of Hannibal - (MO)Municipal | 0.3 hrs18 min | 0.3 | 10.1× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.