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2020 Pope County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pope County, IL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 4,832 customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2004th 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 Pope 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 | March 4, 2020 22:30 | March 5, 2020 01:45 | 3h 15m | 558 | 929 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 23:45 | July 9, 2020 12:00 | 12h 15m | 307 | 692 |
| 3 | January 10, 2020 15:15 | January 10, 2020 17:15 | 2h | 268 | 357 |
| 4 | July 11, 2020 00:45 | July 11, 2020 03:15 | 2h 30m | 135 | 224 |
| 5 | July 16, 2020 04:00 | July 16, 2020 07:30 | 3h 30m | 64 | 130 |
| 6 | September 13, 2020 15:00 | September 13, 2020 16:15 | 1h 15m | 58 | 57 |
| 7 | June 11, 2020 17:45 | June 11, 2020 18:45 | 1h | 48 | 48 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 11:15 | October 29, 2020 15:15 | 4h | 41 | 115 |
| 9 | August 11, 2020 01:45 | August 11, 2020 17:30 | 15h 45m | 40 | 169 |
| 10 | July 25, 2020 15:15 | July 27, 2020 12:00 | 1d 20h | 39 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 Pope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.23 | 1.5 hrs | 0.99 |
| Southern Illinois Elec 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 ÷ 1,842 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. Pope County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county