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2018 Pope County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pope County, IL went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 456th 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 Pope 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 | June 29, 2018 07:45 | June 29, 2018 11:00 | 3h 15m | 1,344 | 2,901 |
| 2 | June 29, 2018 18:15 | June 30, 2018 00:30 | 6h 15m | 925 | 4,086 |
| 3 | June 29, 2018 11:45 | June 29, 2018 12:30 | 45m | 736 | 334 |
| 4 | June 9, 2018 19:15 | June 9, 2018 21:00 | 1h 45m | 615 | 658 |
| 5 | June 1, 2018 16:30 | June 1, 2018 18:45 | 2h 15m | 613 | 656 |
| 6 | April 5, 2018 14:30 | April 5, 2018 19:30 | 5h | 602 | 822 |
| 7 | February 25, 2018 02:00 | February 25, 2018 07:45 | 5h 45m | 515 | 2,819 |
| 8 | April 17, 2018 18:45 | April 17, 2018 19:30 | 45m | 428 | 321 |
| 9 | July 12, 2018 19:45 | July 12, 2018 20:00 | 15m | 361 | 90 |
| 10 | June 30, 2018 01:30 | July 2, 2018 00:15 | 1d 22h | 305 | 5,589 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 19 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 Pope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 10.8 hrs | 2.74 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 |
| Southern Illinois Elec 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 92% of Illinois's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,842 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. Pope County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county