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Illinois Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 1 customers are currently without power across 1 counties in Illinois.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Mercer County82.6h/cust
  2. 2Gallatin County52.1h/cust
  3. 3Saline County33.2h/cust
  4. 4Pope County24.8h/cust
  5. 5Hardin County19.8h/cust
  6. 6Putnam County16.0h/cust
  7. 7Monroe County14.7h/cust
  8. 8Williamson County14.6h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
Illinois
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AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 18
Updated July 18, 2026
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Cost of power in Illinois

▲ 59% since 2010

What Illinoispays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
20.5¢
per kWh
Commercial
13.9¢
per kWh
Industrial
9.7¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
11.5¢201011.9¢201111.5¢201210.7¢201312.0¢201412.6¢201512.6¢201613.0¢201712.8¢201813.1¢201913.2¢202013.3¢202115.7¢202215.9¢202316.0¢202417.8¢202518.4¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

MolineROCK ISLAND COUNTY1

A decade of outages in Illinois

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

2.3h20151.5h20161.4h20172.5h20181.8h20195.9h20202.3h20211.6h20224.0h20233.0h20242.5h2025

Illinois's worst year on record was 2020 (peak 279,858 customers out) · decade average 2.6 hrs per customer/yr.

See how Illinois ranks against every state →

What causes outages in Illinois

Share of outage-time by reported cause, aggregated across all counties.

Trees / vegetation
52%
Equipment failure
30.7%
Planned / maintenance
12.5%
Vehicle / accident
4.3%
Animal / wildlife
0.6%

A reported cause is available for 6.7% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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  • November 19, 2023 · - Suspicious activity0
  • October 26, 2023 · - Suspicious activity0
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  • September 15, 2023 · - Suspicious activity0

Electric providers in Illinois

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