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Who serves Cole County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren, Three Rivers Electric Cooperative ↗ and Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Cole County, MO
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 622 customers, restored in ~5.5 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cole County, MO
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
208 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Missouri norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~13,018 customers out in May 2019, restored after about 46.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Cole County
Communities in Cole County include Jefferson City, Wardsville, St. Martins, Taos, Russellville, Centertown, St. Thomas and Lohman. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Cole County, MO?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Cole include Ameren, Three Rivers Electric Cooperative and Co-Mo Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
