County annual report · FIPS 17011
2020 Bureau County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bureau County, IL went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 286K customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 545th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bureau County, 2020
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 10, 2020 19:15 | August 15, 2020 19:45 | 5d | 7,252 | 231K |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 20:30 | July 13, 2020 07:45 | 1d 11h | 3,417 | 11K |
| 3 | February 15, 2020 02:00 | February 15, 2020 04:30 | 2h 30m | 2,841 | 4,275 |
| 4 | June 2, 2020 03:00 | June 2, 2020 07:00 | 4h | 2,056 | 2,466 |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 15:15 | January 11, 2020 22:00 | 6h 45m | 1,908 | 4,923 |
| 6 | April 4, 2020 12:15 | April 4, 2020 14:15 | 2h | 1,010 | 1,562 |
| 7 | March 6, 2020 03:15 | March 6, 2020 05:00 | 1h 45m | 596 | 446 |
| 8 | May 26, 2020 22:15 | May 27, 2020 05:45 | 7h 30m | 587 | 1,392 |
| 9 | November 10, 2020 21:45 | November 11, 2020 22:45 | 1d 1h | 568 | 3,094 |
| 10 | December 8, 2020 15:15 | December 8, 2020 18:45 | 3h 30m | 566 | 604 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Bureau County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 0.82 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | 0.83 | 40 min | 0.55 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 4.46 | 2.8 hrs | 3.97 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Princeton - (IL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ladd - (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 94% of Illinois's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,642 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. Bureau County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bureau County, IL annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/illinois/bureau-county