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2019 Menard County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Menard County, IL went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Illinois average 1.8 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1689th 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 Menard 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 | September 5, 2019 13:00 | September 5, 2019 14:15 | 1h 15m | 2,010 | 518 |
| 2 | September 8, 2019 10:30 | September 8, 2019 14:00 | 3h 30m | 633 | 945 |
| 3 | May 2, 2019 11:15 | May 2, 2019 13:30 | 2h 15m | 401 | 407 |
| 4 | August 27, 2019 15:15 | August 27, 2019 17:15 | 2h | 338 | 177 |
| 5 | January 30, 2019 08:15 | January 30, 2019 10:15 | 2h | 294 | 520 |
| 6 | May 26, 2019 05:00 | May 27, 2019 01:30 | 20h 30m | 288 | 5,672 |
| 7 | May 23, 2019 05:15 | May 24, 2019 00:30 | 19h 15m | 207 | 1,428 |
| 8 | June 1, 2019 23:30 | June 2, 2019 02:15 | 2h 45m | 90 | 239 |
| 9 | May 29, 2019 02:15 | May 29, 2019 13:00 | 10h 45m | 82 | 359 |
| 10 | May 30, 2019 01:45 | May 30, 2019 04:00 | 2h 15m | 64 | 144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 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 Menard 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 |
| Menard Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 1.75 | 2.9 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 ÷ 4,167 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. Menard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Menard 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/menard-county