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2018 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1175th 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 Ford 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 | May 1, 2018 20:30 | May 2, 2018 01:00 | 4h 30m | 3,062 | 2,425 |
| 2 | July 10, 2018 01:15 | July 10, 2018 14:45 | 13h 30m | 1,355 | 702 |
| 3 | January 11, 2018 22:00 | January 12, 2018 12:45 | 14h 45m | 406 | 1,420 |
| 4 | August 17, 2018 05:15 | August 17, 2018 12:15 | 7h | 404 | 640 |
| 5 | November 26, 2018 07:45 | November 28, 2018 21:30 | 2d 13h | 403 | 6,437 |
| 6 | January 22, 2018 23:45 | January 23, 2018 01:15 | 1h 30m | 353 | 264 |
| 7 | June 9, 2018 13:30 | June 11, 2018 13:00 | 1d 23h | 345 | 1,705 |
| 8 | December 27, 2018 22:30 | December 28, 2018 01:30 | 3h | 338 | 340 |
| 9 | December 2, 2018 04:30 | December 2, 2018 09:00 | 4h 30m | 336 | 1,512 |
| 10 | August 7, 2018 00:45 | August 7, 2018 09:00 | 8h 15m | 331 | 769 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 17 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 | 58 min | 0.70 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/ford-county