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2018 Mercer County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mercer County, IL went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1295th 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 Mercer 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 | November 25, 2018 22:45 | November 27, 2018 05:30 | 1d 6h | 2,202 | 5,536 |
| 2 | September 6, 2018 18:00 | September 6, 2018 23:30 | 5h 30m | 1,123 | 573 |
| 3 | September 18, 2018 17:45 | September 19, 2018 02:30 | 8h 45m | 984 | 2,828 |
| 4 | April 6, 2018 14:30 | April 7, 2018 00:45 | 10h 15m | 942 | 2,832 |
| 5 | August 7, 2018 07:00 | August 7, 2018 08:30 | 1h 30m | 922 | 1,383 |
| 6 | September 2, 2018 04:15 | September 2, 2018 08:00 | 3h 45m | 909 | 1,053 |
| 7 | January 11, 2018 09:30 | January 11, 2018 15:45 | 6h 15m | 587 | 1,580 |
| 8 | October 4, 2018 20:00 | October 4, 2018 23:30 | 3h 30m | 455 | 1,024 |
| 9 | January 7, 2018 18:15 | January 8, 2018 01:45 | 7h 30m | 364 | 841 |
| 10 | March 24, 2018 10:30 | March 24, 2018 13:00 | 2h 30m | 363 | 281 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 29 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 Mercer 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 |
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| 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 ÷ 8,972 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county