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2019 Fayette County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Fayette County, IL went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.8 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 980th 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 Fayette 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 | August 13, 2019 04:15 | August 13, 2019 15:15 | 11h | 1,688 | 6,858 |
| 2 | May 23, 2019 07:15 | May 23, 2019 19:30 | 12h 15m | 1,216 | 2,126 |
| 3 | June 10, 2019 01:15 | June 10, 2019 13:30 | 12h 15m | 743 | 2,271 |
| 4 | July 23, 2019 15:45 | July 23, 2019 18:30 | 2h 45m | 587 | 443 |
| 5 | August 13, 2019 23:30 | August 14, 2019 04:30 | 5h | 492 | 1,530 |
| 6 | May 20, 2019 14:15 | May 20, 2019 19:15 | 5h | 431 | 588 |
| 7 | February 24, 2019 06:45 | February 24, 2019 20:30 | 13h 45m | 425 | 1,131 |
| 8 | July 27, 2019 02:45 | July 27, 2019 04:15 | 1h 30m | 395 | 507 |
| 9 | March 29, 2019 16:15 | March 29, 2019 17:45 | 1h 30m | 389 | 299 |
| 10 | August 23, 2019 16:45 | August 23, 2019 23:30 | 6h 45m | 303 | 201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 42 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 Fayette 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| M J M Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clinton County Elec 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 99% of Illinois's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,295 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county