Power outages in Cole County, MO

Live outage counts for Jefferson City, Wardsville and St. Martins and the rest of Cole County, updated every 10 minutes from Ameren Missouri.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
3customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
0.01% of 29,783 customersUpdated 7 min ago
iWe check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.
Ameren Missouri3 / 29,783
Co-Mo Electric Coop Incno live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.
Three Rivers Electric Coopno live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

Outage locations not published
County outlineAmeren Missouri publishes totals only, not outage locations.
iSome utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

1 of 6 ZIP codes have outages
ZIPAreaOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
65101Jefferson City / Taos311,0650.03%
65023Centertown / St. Martins05510.00%
65040Unincorporated area01250.00%
65053Lohman03370.00%
65076St. Thomas01280.00%
65109Jefferson City / St. Martins016,8870.00%

Outage history in Cole County

2014–2025 record

Cole County averaged 15.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, fewer than most Missouri counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 21. Half were over within 45 minutes; the longest lasted 5 hours, starting March 14, 2025.

The largest on record began May 23, 2019, with 13,018 customers out at once.

15.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.
1.5 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
2.5 dayslongest on record (May 2019)
13,018most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
May 23, 201913,0182.5 days156,745
June 27, 20215,46330 minutes1,670
June 26, 20215,0476 hours17,922
May 24, 20153,07915 minutes770
January 31, 20252,96515 minutes741

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

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Generators, heat and cold

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