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2018 Champaign County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Champaign County, IL went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1923rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Champaign County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 20, 2018 12:45 | October 21, 2018 21:15 | 1d 8h | 5,636 | 15K |
| 2 | June 9, 2018 15:00 | June 11, 2018 17:00 | 2d 2h | 4,255 | 28K |
| 3 | May 31, 2018 22:00 | June 1, 2018 17:00 | 19h | 4,148 | 8,475 |
| 4 | May 24, 2018 10:30 | May 24, 2018 14:30 | 4h | 4,026 | 1,028 |
| 5 | February 8, 2018 15:00 | February 8, 2018 21:45 | 6h 45m | 3,657 | 1,525 |
| 6 | October 22, 2018 08:15 | October 22, 2018 16:45 | 8h 30m | 3,460 | 5,230 |
| 7 | May 30, 2018 04:30 | May 30, 2018 19:30 | 15h | 2,872 | 4,353 |
| 8 | January 8, 2018 19:00 | January 9, 2018 03:30 | 8h 30m | 2,684 | 2,743 |
| 9 | July 7, 2018 18:30 | July 9, 2018 17:45 | 1d 23h | 2,595 | 1,738 |
| 10 | December 21, 2018 13:45 | December 21, 2018 18:15 | 4h 30m | 2,332 | 1,086 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 99 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Champaign County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.06 | 1.8 hrs | 0.90 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2018 | 6.9 hrs | 4.02 | 3.3 hrs | 3.75 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 2.04 | 2.2 hrs | 1.57 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| University of Illinois | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Rantoul - (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 92% of Illinois's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 90,035 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. Champaign County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Champaign County, IL annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/illinois/champaign-county