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2020 Menard County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Menard County, IL went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 4,265 customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2641st 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 Menard 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 | July 9, 2020 10:45 | July 9, 2020 12:45 | 2h | 339 | 424 |
| 2 | March 1, 2020 15:45 | March 1, 2020 18:15 | 2h 30m | 274 | 575 |
| 3 | June 8, 2020 02:30 | June 8, 2020 05:45 | 3h 15m | 268 | 106 |
| 4 | July 5, 2020 23:45 | July 6, 2020 01:15 | 1h 30m | 201 | 268 |
| 5 | February 1, 2020 04:45 | February 1, 2020 09:45 | 5h | 146 | 529 |
| 6 | December 17, 2020 15:15 | December 17, 2020 17:30 | 2h 15m | 97 | 171 |
| 7 | August 18, 2020 04:00 | August 18, 2020 05:45 | 1h 45m | 79 | 93 |
| 8 | September 15, 2020 20:00 | September 16, 2020 02:45 | 6h 45m | 79 | 277 |
| 9 | May 26, 2020 00:30 | May 26, 2020 09:45 | 9h 15m | 66 | 338 |
| 10 | October 17, 2020 12:30 | October 18, 2020 01:15 | 12h 45m | 45 | 148 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/menard-county