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Outage cuts power to more than 900 meters in Jefferson City

The Ameren Missouri outage map shows an outage in Jefferson City on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025.
Ameren Missouri
The Ameren Missouri outage map shows an outage in Jefferson City on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

Damage from digging led to more than 900 Ameren Missouri customers in the southwest Jefferson City area losing power for hours on Tuesday afternoon.

The utility's outage map showed 945 customers without power in an outage that started at 1:38 p.m. Power had been restored by 3:15 p.m., the map showed.

An Ameren spokesperson says a third party hit an underground power line, causing the outage.

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