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2016 DeKalb County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in DeKalb County, IL went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.5 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 100 Illinois counties and 2047th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in DeKalb County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 19, 2016 17:00 | February 20, 2016 20:00 | 1d 3h | 7,097 | 15K |
| 2 | May 11, 2016 19:30 | May 11, 2016 20:00 | 30m | 1,815 | 908 |
| 3 | May 2, 2016 04:30 | May 2, 2016 05:00 | 30m | 793 | 397 |
| 4 | April 2, 2016 17:00 | April 3, 2016 00:30 | 7h 30m | 782 | 1,700 |
| 5 | March 16, 2016 12:30 | March 17, 2016 02:00 | 13h 30m | 512 | 1,206 |
| 6 | May 12, 2016 04:00 | May 12, 2016 15:45 | 11h 45m | 462 | 1,529 |
| 7 | February 15, 2016 17:00 | February 16, 2016 00:00 | 7h | 440 | 464 |
| 8 | January 10, 2016 08:00 | January 10, 2016 18:00 | 10h | 337 | 1,756 |
| 9 | January 23, 2016 00:00 | January 23, 2016 01:30 | 1h 30m | 296 | 444 |
| 10 | June 6, 2016 14:00 | June 6, 2016 15:00 | 1h | 269 | 269 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving DeKalb County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 | 63 min | 0.72 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Illinois's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 79,682 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb County, IL annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/illinois/dekalb-county