Power Outages in Will County, IL
No live outage feed is available for Will County, IL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.8 hours.
Will County, IL is served by local tracked utilities.
Will 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.
- Severe Thunderstorm WatchSEVERE
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Will County has been under 11 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Air Quality Alert on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×10
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Will County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Jolietno active outage
- Bolingbrookno active outage
- Plainfieldno active outage
- Romeovilleno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Will County went about 1.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 98,024 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 98,024 customers out) · decade average 3.0 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 638 | 22,598 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 384 | 3,782 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 617 | 17,769 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 617 | 14,425 | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 696 | 16,079 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 847 | 98,024 | 15.0 |
| 2021 | 949 | 8,355 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 958 | 5,601 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,030 | 8,303 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 955 | 62,498 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 1,020 | 14,999 | 1.8 |
Very High tornadoes exposure · 3.0 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Will County: FAQ
- How often does Will County, IL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Will County, IL logged 1,020 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Will County, IL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 98,024 customers without power, beginning August 10, 2020 and lasting about 7d 18h.
- Is there a power outage in Will County, IL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Will County, IL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Joliet, Bolingbrook, Plainfield, Romeoville. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Will County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Will County.
60401, 60403, 60404, 60408, 60410, 60417, 60421, 60423, 60431, 60432, 60433, 60435, 60436, 60440, 60441, 60442, 60446, 60448, 60449, 60451, 60468, 60481, 60484, 60490, 60491, 60503, 60544, 60564, 60585, 60586
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/17197 and /api/v1/counties/17197/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Illinois customers).