Champaign County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Champaign County, Illinois had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.39 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 62 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

119 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 30,548 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 119.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	62,382	59	1
2016	72,733	63	1
2017	11,924	20	0
2018	107,796	77	2
2019	161,530	80	3
2020	164,542	77	2
2021	87,776	74	0
2022	93,612	80	0
2023	1,072,407	60	2

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
Jun 29, 2023	119.2	30,548	949,887
Aug 10, 2020	28.2	5,667	61,102
Jul 11, 2020	18.0	4,347	35,073
Jun 30, 2019	12.5	8,370	34,733
May 23, 2019	15.0	5,077	28,458

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.