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2017 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 6,176 customer-hours (Illinois average 1.4 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1991st 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 Ford 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 | March 8, 2017 17:30 | March 9, 2017 00:30 | 7h | 342 | 982 |
| 2 | March 9, 2017 02:30 | March 9, 2017 03:00 | 30m | 341 | 171 |
| 3 | June 18, 2017 07:30 | June 18, 2017 14:00 | 6h 30m | 341 | 1,439 |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 06:15 | March 1, 2017 08:15 | 2h | 339 | 464 |
| 5 | July 31, 2017 21:30 | July 31, 2017 23:30 | 2h | 337 | 449 |
| 6 | December 4, 2017 09:45 | December 4, 2017 10:00 | 15m | 169 | 42 |
| 7 | December 13, 2017 21:15 | December 14, 2017 12:15 | 15h | 153 | 796 |
| 8 | December 24, 2017 22:30 | December 25, 2017 04:45 | 6h 15m | 78 | 337 |
| 9 | March 20, 2017 10:45 | March 20, 2017 13:00 | 2h 15m | 71 | 99 |
| 10 | December 26, 2017 11:15 | December 26, 2017 14:15 | 3h | 59 | 135 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Ford 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 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.66 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2017 | 3.8 hrs | 4.15 | 3.8 hrs | 4.15 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.34 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,462 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. Ford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ford 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/ford-county