Clinton County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clinton County, Illinois had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.94 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 60 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 27, 2016, reached 7,166 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 6.8 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	6,317	6	1
2016	57,009	18	1
2017	2,263	5	0
2018	72,534	19	3
2019	46,806	18	2
2020	45,867	22	0
2021	5,573	9	0
2022	57,016	24	1
2023	32,791	15	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
Jan 27, 2016	6.8	7,166	41,104
Jun 28, 2018	15.2	5,259	36,818
Nov 15, 2020	3.8	12,244	29,498
Feb 2, 2022	8.8	6,432	22,781
Jul 29, 2023	26.2	999	16,926

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.