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2017 Effingham County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Effingham County, IL went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.4 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2124th 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 Effingham 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 | May 4, 2017 20:15 | May 5, 2017 06:00 | 9h 45m | 3,792 | 3,523 |
| 2 | April 29, 2017 23:30 | April 30, 2017 17:15 | 17h 45m | 757 | 2,130 |
| 3 | December 13, 2017 18:45 | December 13, 2017 20:15 | 1h 30m | 635 | 478 |
| 4 | January 10, 2017 23:45 | January 11, 2017 05:15 | 5h 30m | 514 | 631 |
| 5 | April 26, 2017 21:15 | April 27, 2017 11:45 | 14h 30m | 420 | 1,304 |
| 6 | March 31, 2017 15:30 | March 31, 2017 17:30 | 2h | 167 | 124 |
| 7 | March 7, 2017 06:15 | March 7, 2017 14:15 | 8h | 150 | 733 |
| 8 | May 5, 2017 18:30 | May 6, 2017 13:45 | 19h 15m | 107 | 1,997 |
| 9 | October 20, 2017 14:45 | October 20, 2017 17:45 | 3h | 73 | 137 |
| 10 | November 29, 2017 19:00 | November 29, 2017 19:45 | 45m | 63 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 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 Effingham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ameren Illinois Company | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.12 | 2.0 hrs | 0.90 |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (IL) | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | 1.54 | 4.6 hrs | 1.54 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Altamont - (IL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,830 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham 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/effingham-county