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2020 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1483rd 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 Ford 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 | June 3, 2020 16:15 | June 3, 2020 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1,619 | 979 |
| 2 | December 22, 2020 13:15 | December 22, 2020 15:30 | 2h 15m | 526 | 344 |
| 3 | March 8, 2020 19:15 | March 9, 2020 02:00 | 6h 45m | 494 | 917 |
| 4 | August 10, 2020 21:00 | August 13, 2020 18:45 | 2d 21h | 364 | 12K |
| 5 | September 10, 2020 05:15 | September 10, 2020 11:15 | 6h | 306 | 1,763 |
| 6 | October 18, 2020 14:30 | October 18, 2020 15:45 | 1h 15m | 293 | 162 |
| 7 | July 28, 2020 08:45 | July 28, 2020 13:30 | 4h 45m | 227 | 745 |
| 8 | September 17, 2020 06:30 | September 17, 2020 13:45 | 7h 15m | 183 | 1,320 |
| 9 | February 26, 2020 15:00 | February 26, 2020 18:45 | 3h 45m | 156 | 219 |
| 10 | July 12, 2020 02:30 | July 13, 2020 21:00 | 1d 18h | 93 | 736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 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 Ford 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 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2020 | 2.5 hrs | 1.47 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 |
| 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 94% of Illinois's customers in 2020; 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, 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/ford-county