Peoria County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Peoria County, Illinois had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.74 times the US outage time per person and 1.74 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 37 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 28, 2015, reached 23,261 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.0 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	1,078,532	83	5
2016	153,746	98	2
2017	67,912	44	1
2018	154,005	91	1
2019	243,506	111	4
2020	440,922	91	3
2021	248,138	105	5
2022	239,660	106	2
2023	292,830	95	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
Dec 28, 2015	56.0	23,261	709,947
Jul 11, 2020	25.5	12,327	138,355
Aug 10, 2020	55.0	6,870	133,992
Jun 7, 2015	16.8	11,440	119,008
Jun 29, 2023	48.2	5,926	80,534

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.