Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Missouri under EIA identifier 6181. It reports service to approximately 13,504 customer accounts and generated about $0.03 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 45 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2023, the average Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) customer experienced 176.9 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.91, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 72.1 minutes, and the spread against the headline 176.9 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 8.9 to 176.9 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.