Power Outages in Lake County, IL
No live outage feed is available for Lake County, IL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.5 hours.
Lake County, IL is served by local tracked utilities.
Lake 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.
- Beach Hazards StatementMODERATE
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Lake County has been under 12 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Beach Hazards Statement on July 19, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×10
- Beach Hazards Statement ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Lake County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Waukeganno active outage
- Buffalo Groveno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Lake County went about 0.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 42,379 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 42,379 customers out) · decade average 0.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 756 | 12,917 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 418 | 5,992 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 734 | 9,288 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 861 | 20,513 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 872 | 11,117 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 1,061 | 28,909 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 1,031 | 42,379 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 1,114 | 4,571 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 1,164 | 14,719 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 1,137 | 23,670 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 1,134 | 8,580 | 0.5 |
Very High high winds exposure · 0.9 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Lake County: FAQ
- How often does Lake County, IL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Lake County, IL logged 1,134 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Lake County, IL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 42,379 customers without power, beginning August 10, 2021 and lasting about 3d 13h.
- Is there a power outage in Lake County, IL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Lake County, IL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Waukegan, Buffalo Grove. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Lake County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Lake County.
60002, 60015, 60020, 60030, 60031, 60035, 60040, 60041, 60042, 60044, 60045, 60046, 60047, 60048, 60060, 60061, 60064, 60069, 60073, 60075, 60083, 60084, 60085, 60087, 60088, 60089, 60096, 60099
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/17097 and /api/v1/counties/17097/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Illinois customers).