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2016 Richland County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Richland County, IL went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 100 Illinois counties and 1364th 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 Richland 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 | July 13, 2016 23:00 | July 15, 2016 00:45 | 1d 1h | 1,041 | 8,093 |
| 2 | July 12, 2016 14:45 | July 12, 2016 20:45 | 6h | 992 | 2,714 |
| 3 | July 15, 2016 13:30 | July 15, 2016 14:00 | 30m | 827 | 414 |
| 4 | March 28, 2016 03:00 | March 28, 2016 06:00 | 3h | 372 | 1,072 |
| 5 | April 26, 2016 22:30 | April 27, 2016 03:00 | 4h 30m | 331 | 947 |
| 6 | July 22, 2016 22:00 | July 23, 2016 01:45 | 3h 45m | 267 | 602 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 23:15 | July 29, 2016 00:30 | 1h 15m | 267 | 268 |
| 8 | December 12, 2016 01:00 | December 12, 2016 03:45 | 2h 45m | 266 | 607 |
| 9 | July 3, 2016 09:30 | July 3, 2016 11:30 | 2h | 133 | 183 |
| 10 | April 14, 2016 18:45 | April 14, 2016 19:15 | 30m | 80 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richland 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,109 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county