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2019 Lee County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lee County, IL went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.8 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1286th 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 Lee 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 | February 12, 2019 01:00 | February 14, 2019 22:00 | 2d 21h | 5,849 | 71K |
| 2 | December 18, 2019 15:15 | December 18, 2019 17:00 | 1h 45m | 1,628 | 591 |
| 3 | October 1, 2019 23:30 | October 2, 2019 03:00 | 3h 30m | 1,368 | 1,982 |
| 4 | May 11, 2019 19:30 | May 11, 2019 20:30 | 1h | 793 | 793 |
| 5 | October 30, 2019 18:15 | October 30, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 791 | 405 |
| 6 | March 9, 2019 21:00 | March 9, 2019 21:30 | 30m | 736 | 368 |
| 7 | February 24, 2019 08:00 | February 25, 2019 07:30 | 23h 30m | 731 | 3,346 |
| 8 | June 10, 2019 14:30 | June 10, 2019 22:30 | 8h | 694 | 1,040 |
| 9 | May 25, 2019 06:00 | May 26, 2019 01:00 | 19h | 553 | 1,488 |
| 10 | September 21, 2019 13:30 | September 21, 2019 18:00 | 4h 30m | 553 | 280 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 32 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 | 58 min | 0.70 |
| Rochelle Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,665 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county