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2020 Cass County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cass County, IL went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 5,707 customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2682nd 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 Cass 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 | January 18, 2020 01:00 | January 18, 2020 03:45 | 2h 45m | 1,248 | 2,740 |
| 2 | June 8, 2020 02:30 | June 8, 2020 03:15 | 45m | 748 | 214 |
| 3 | August 12, 2020 09:15 | August 12, 2020 09:45 | 30m | 414 | 207 |
| 4 | November 13, 2020 16:45 | November 13, 2020 20:00 | 3h 15m | 322 | 410 |
| 5 | August 15, 2020 01:45 | August 15, 2020 08:15 | 6h 30m | 273 | 351 |
| 6 | July 28, 2020 15:15 | July 28, 2020 20:00 | 4h 45m | 60 | 167 |
| 7 | August 31, 2020 13:15 | August 31, 2020 20:15 | 7h | 57 | 202 |
| 8 | April 9, 2020 22:15 | April 9, 2020 23:00 | 45m | 55 | 32 |
| 9 | July 21, 2020 23:30 | July 22, 2020 01:00 | 1h 30m | 54 | 67 |
| 10 | April 11, 2020 13:15 | April 11, 2020 15:15 | 2h | 38 | 48 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Cass 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 |
| Menard Electric Coop | 2020 | 2.5 hrs | 1.72 | 2.1 hrs | 1.61 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Illinois Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,087 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. Cass County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cass 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/cass-county