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2017 DeKalb County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in DeKalb County, IL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.4 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2022nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in DeKalb County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2017 21:00 | June 16, 2017 02:00 | 1d 5h | 4,520 | 42K |
| 2 | November 6, 2017 15:00 | November 6, 2017 17:00 | 2h | 3,998 | 2,894 |
| 3 | June 28, 2017 21:30 | June 29, 2017 15:30 | 18h | 1,551 | 5,510 |
| 4 | September 5, 2017 23:30 | September 6, 2017 00:00 | 30m | 899 | 450 |
| 5 | March 26, 2017 07:30 | March 26, 2017 19:30 | 12h | 874 | 1,329 |
| 6 | May 4, 2017 02:00 | May 4, 2017 07:30 | 5h 30m | 797 | 1,535 |
| 7 | February 7, 2017 17:30 | February 7, 2017 18:00 | 30m | 789 | 395 |
| 8 | June 23, 2017 14:00 | June 23, 2017 16:00 | 2h | 782 | 832 |
| 9 | December 3, 2017 08:30 | December 3, 2017 09:30 | 1h | 605 | 605 |
| 10 | May 16, 2017 02:00 | May 16, 2017 02:30 | 30m | 594 | 297 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 44 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 DeKalb County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.66 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/illinois/dekalb-county