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2017 Menard County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Menard County, IL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 6,288 customer-hours (Illinois average 1.4 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1822nd 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 Menard 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 | April 29, 2017 21:00 | May 1, 2017 01:00 | 1d 4h | 913 | 4,988 |
| 2 | December 24, 2017 07:00 | December 24, 2017 09:15 | 2h 15m | 336 | 756 |
| 3 | May 2, 2017 20:30 | May 2, 2017 22:00 | 1h 30m | 172 | 132 |
| 4 | November 8, 2017 14:30 | November 8, 2017 20:45 | 6h 15m | 22 | 88 |
| 5 | January 23, 2017 19:00 | January 23, 2017 20:00 | 1h | 18 | 14 |
| 6 | December 27, 2017 07:45 | December 27, 2017 10:15 | 2h 30m | 16 | 27 |
| 7 | March 7, 2017 18:00 | March 7, 2017 20:00 | 2h | 12 | 23 |
| 8 | April 27, 2017 04:00 | April 27, 2017 04:30 | 30m | 12 | 6 |
| 9 | November 14, 2017 15:15 | November 14, 2017 19:00 | 3h 45m | 12 | 31 |
| 10 | December 8, 2017 00:15 | December 8, 2017 01:45 | 1h 30m | 12 | 18 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Menard 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 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Menard Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,167 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. Menard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Menard 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/menard-county