Boone County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Boone County, Illinois had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.30 times the US outage time per person and 0.70 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 75 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 22, 2023, reached 2,892 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	22,590	17	1
2016	2,734	5	0
2017	57,426	14	3
2018	13,707	20	0
2019	15,946	12	1
2020	77,660	13	3
2021	22,171	14	1
2022	13,779	11	1
2023	120,281	17	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 22, 2023	51.5	2,892	69,686
Apr 1, 2023	25.0	2,640	38,813
Aug 11, 2020	43.2	1,636	31,098
Jun 29, 2017	16.5	3,971	21,290
Aug 10, 2020	12.8	2,437	20,460

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.