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2019 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.8 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1155th 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 Ford 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 | May 23, 2019 06:45 | May 24, 2019 17:45 | 1d 11h | 2,171 | 5,796 |
| 2 | November 27, 2019 10:45 | November 27, 2019 18:15 | 7h 30m | 1,836 | 721 |
| 3 | September 17, 2019 22:00 | September 18, 2019 04:00 | 6h | 1,403 | 8,058 |
| 4 | July 29, 2019 14:30 | July 29, 2019 19:15 | 4h 45m | 953 | 1,304 |
| 5 | January 8, 2019 20:15 | January 8, 2019 23:00 | 2h 45m | 816 | 954 |
| 6 | June 30, 2019 11:45 | July 2, 2019 04:00 | 1d 16h | 540 | 2,439 |
| 7 | April 7, 2019 14:00 | April 7, 2019 16:30 | 2h 30m | 396 | 411 |
| 8 | February 6, 2019 06:00 | February 6, 2019 07:00 | 1h | 338 | 338 |
| 9 | July 4, 2019 23:30 | July 5, 2019 02:15 | 2h 45m | 224 | 187 |
| 10 | April 1, 2019 01:45 | April 1, 2019 03:00 | 1h 15m | 145 | 156 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ford 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 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 | 58 min | 0.70 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2018 | 6.9 hrs | 4.02 | 3.3 hrs | 3.75 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 2.04 | 2.2 hrs | 1.57 |
| 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 99% of Illinois's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,462 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. Ford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ford 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/ford-county