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2017 Fayette County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fayette County, IL went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.4 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1693rd 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 Fayette 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 | November 29, 2017 18:45 | November 29, 2017 22:30 | 3h 45m | 2,507 | 5,362 |
| 2 | April 28, 2017 19:15 | April 30, 2017 21:00 | 2d 1h | 584 | 4,247 |
| 3 | May 11, 2017 03:30 | May 11, 2017 13:00 | 9h 30m | 299 | 800 |
| 4 | May 5, 2017 07:45 | May 5, 2017 14:00 | 6h 15m | 209 | 662 |
| 5 | January 26, 2017 20:15 | January 27, 2017 16:30 | 20h 15m | 207 | 175 |
| 6 | November 27, 2017 17:30 | November 27, 2017 18:45 | 1h 15m | 168 | 203 |
| 7 | November 28, 2017 17:45 | November 28, 2017 18:15 | 30m | 103 | 27 |
| 8 | November 5, 2017 21:15 | November 6, 2017 03:45 | 6h 30m | 87 | 180 |
| 9 | October 23, 2017 01:00 | October 23, 2017 02:30 | 1h 30m | 84 | 107 |
| 10 | February 16, 2017 15:15 | February 17, 2017 00:30 | 9h 15m | 73 | 115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| M J M Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clinton County Elec 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,295 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county