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2019 Effingham County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Effingham County, IL went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.8 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2308th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Effingham County, 2019
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 5, 2019 23:00 | June 6, 2019 02:15 | 3h 15m | 1,192 | 1,942 |
| 2 | May 17, 2019 18:45 | May 17, 2019 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,118 | 305 |
| 3 | March 14, 2019 16:45 | March 14, 2019 20:00 | 3h 15m | 810 | 622 |
| 4 | November 9, 2019 16:30 | November 9, 2019 19:00 | 2h 30m | 658 | 1,316 |
| 5 | August 4, 2019 14:15 | August 4, 2019 16:30 | 2h 15m | 653 | 1,105 |
| 6 | April 22, 2019 14:30 | April 23, 2019 17:15 | 1d 2h | 538 | 2,129 |
| 7 | June 19, 2019 13:30 | June 19, 2019 23:30 | 10h | 438 | 495 |
| 8 | May 10, 2019 06:15 | May 10, 2019 09:15 | 3h | 406 | 1,218 |
| 9 | April 2, 2019 08:15 | April 2, 2019 09:45 | 1h 30m | 404 | 606 |
| 10 | October 28, 2019 15:45 | October 28, 2019 19:00 | 3h 15m | 355 | 237 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 25 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 Effingham County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (IL) | 2018 | 4.6 hrs | 1.89 | 4.6 hrs | 1.89 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Altamont - (IL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of Illinois's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,830 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham County, IL annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/illinois/effingham-county