Fulton County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fulton County, Illinois had 8 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 0.95 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.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 19, 2021, reached 3,557 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.8 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	31,138	13	1
2016	17,033	16	0
2017	7,289	8	0
2018	19,691	12	1
2019	14,704	19	0
2020	31,993	28	2
2021	65,303	10	1
2022	16,040	13	0
2023	83,842	27	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
Jun 19, 2021	38.8	3,557	57,490
Jun 29, 2023	47.5	2,000	37,377
Apr 5, 2023	28.8	2,429	18,422
Nov 26, 2018	14.5	1,301	12,555
Dec 28, 2015	20.2	1,113	10,019

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.