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2016 Menard County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Menard County, IL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.5 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 100 Illinois counties and 1119th 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 Menard 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 | November 2, 2016 22:00 | November 3, 2016 18:30 | 20h 30m | 2,351 | 3,346 |
| 2 | September 25, 2016 19:15 | September 26, 2016 06:30 | 11h 15m | 2,022 | 2,765 |
| 3 | March 7, 2016 18:45 | March 7, 2016 19:00 | 15m | 1,132 | 283 |
| 4 | April 2, 2016 17:15 | April 2, 2016 19:00 | 1h 45m | 807 | 713 |
| 5 | January 12, 2016 23:30 | January 13, 2016 02:00 | 2h 30m | 386 | 500 |
| 6 | April 28, 2016 06:00 | April 28, 2016 10:00 | 4h | 377 | 353 |
| 7 | January 26, 2016 00:00 | January 26, 2016 01:30 | 1h 30m | 325 | 406 |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 11:00 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 23h | 203 | 586 |
| 9 | October 16, 2016 21:45 | October 17, 2016 02:00 | 4h 15m | 109 | 80 |
| 10 | April 9, 2016 18:45 | April 9, 2016 20:00 | 1h 15m | 78 | 67 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Menard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ameren Illinois Company | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.1 hrs | 1.04 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Menard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,167 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. Menard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Menard 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/menard-county