Washington County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.38 times the US outage time per person and 3.27 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 5 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 1, 2023, reached 4,804 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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	12,758	16	1
2016	28,730	9	3
2017	4,326	7	0
2018	67,158	30	4
2019	10,792	19	0
2020	25,750	10	1
2021	13,036	13	0
2022	20,274	16	1
2023	229,264	18	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
Jul 1, 2023	93.5	4,804	194,318
Jun 29, 2018	14.5	1,964	20,324
Aug 11, 2020	25.5	1,381	16,942
Feb 24, 2016	33.2	1,114	14,881
May 31, 2018	15.0	2,317	12,002

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.