Power Outages in Edwards County, IL
No live outage feed is available for Edwards County, IL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.4 hours.
Edwards County, IL is served by local tracked utilities.
Edwards County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Edwards County right now.
Edwards County has been under 3 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 11, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×2
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Edwards County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Edwards County went about 2.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 2,077 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 1,482 customers out) · decade average 1.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | 2,077 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 158 | 530 | 0.7 |
| 2017 | 55 | 572 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 140 | 572 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 158 | 962 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 209 | 671 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 170 | 930 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 183 | 1,315 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 243 | 886 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 182 | 1,482 | 2.8 |
| 2025 | 163 | 1,115 | 2.4 |
Relatively Low ice storms exposure · 1.7 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Edwards County: FAQ
- How often does Edwards County, IL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Edwards County, IL logged 163 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Edwards County, IL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 2,077 customers without power, beginning August 19, 2015 and lasting about 3h.
- Is there a power outage in Edwards County, IL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Edwards County, IL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Edwards County.
62476, 62806, 62815, 62818
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/17047 and /api/v1/counties/17047/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Illinois customers).