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2018 Richland County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richland County, IL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2191st 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 Richland 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 31, 2018 16:15 | June 1, 2018 06:45 | 14h 30m | 1,210 | 6,822 |
| 2 | February 19, 2018 17:00 | February 19, 2018 23:00 | 6h | 847 | 793 |
| 3 | July 12, 2018 08:00 | July 12, 2018 09:30 | 1h 30m | 705 | 529 |
| 4 | July 10, 2018 15:30 | July 10, 2018 18:45 | 3h 15m | 437 | 230 |
| 5 | September 8, 2018 17:00 | September 8, 2018 23:15 | 6h 15m | 251 | 929 |
| 6 | May 5, 2018 00:15 | May 5, 2018 00:30 | 15m | 231 | 58 |
| 7 | March 16, 2018 06:00 | March 16, 2018 13:45 | 7h 45m | 117 | 283 |
| 8 | May 20, 2018 22:15 | May 21, 2018 02:00 | 3h 45m | 95 | 165 |
| 9 | February 12, 2018 17:00 | February 12, 2018 22:00 | 5h | 85 | 64 |
| 10 | September 2, 2018 15:15 | September 2, 2018 17:00 | 1h 45m | 70 | 106 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 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 Richland 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 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,109 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county