Power Outages in Menard County, IL
No live outage feed is available for Menard County, IL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.2 hours.
Menard County, IL is served by local tracked utilities.
Menard 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.
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Menard County has been under 1 National Weather Service alert recently — most recently a Air Quality Alert on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Menard County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Menard County went about 2.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 2,351 customers.
Worst year here was 2019 (peak 2,010 customers out) · decade average 2.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | 1,988 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 146 | 2,351 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 65 | 913 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 186 | 807 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 168 | 2,010 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 162 | 339 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 148 | 2,016 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 157 | 514 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 156 | 2,047 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 130 | 1,731 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 142 | 1,167 | 2.2 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 2.1 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Menard County: FAQ
- How often does Menard County, IL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Menard County, IL logged 142 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Menard County, IL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 2,351 customers without power, beginning November 2, 2016 and lasting about 20h 30m.
- Is there a power outage in Menard County, IL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Menard County, IL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Menard County.
62613, 62642, 62673, 62675, 62688
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/17129 and /api/v1/counties/17129/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Illinois customers).