County annual report · FIPS 17103
2018 Lee County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lee County, IL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2268th 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 Lee 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 | August 28, 2018 19:30 | August 30, 2018 10:30 | 1d 15h | 1,425 | 7,367 |
| 2 | October 8, 2018 02:00 | October 8, 2018 03:30 | 1h 30m | 901 | 1,352 |
| 3 | April 15, 2018 12:30 | April 15, 2018 13:00 | 30m | 823 | 412 |
| 4 | January 1, 2018 12:15 | January 1, 2018 19:15 | 7h | 732 | 401 |
| 5 | June 22, 2018 14:30 | June 23, 2018 00:00 | 9h 30m | 707 | 678 |
| 6 | May 12, 2018 05:00 | May 12, 2018 07:30 | 2h 30m | 608 | 1,191 |
| 7 | May 18, 2018 09:00 | May 18, 2018 14:30 | 5h 30m | 607 | 925 |
| 8 | May 27, 2018 10:30 | May 27, 2018 15:00 | 4h 30m | 430 | 1,580 |
| 9 | November 1, 2018 02:30 | November 1, 2018 03:00 | 30m | 404 | 202 |
| 10 | May 18, 2018 18:30 | May 18, 2018 21:30 | 3h | 279 | 789 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 18 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 | 58 min | 0.70 |
| Rochelle Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,665 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county