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2020 Richland County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richland County, IL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2577th 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 Richland 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 9, 2020 17:00 | March 9, 2020 20:15 | 3h 15m | 708 | 598 |
| 2 | April 9, 2020 00:45 | April 10, 2020 20:45 | 1d 20h | 394 | 5,049 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 08:00 | January 11, 2020 12:00 | 4h | 305 | 144 |
| 4 | April 23, 2020 17:15 | April 23, 2020 17:45 | 30m | 276 | 70 |
| 5 | August 3, 2020 19:00 | August 3, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 229 | 115 |
| 6 | May 18, 2020 16:30 | May 19, 2020 00:30 | 8h | 136 | 221 |
| 7 | September 8, 2020 13:45 | September 9, 2020 18:30 | 1d 4h | 130 | 292 |
| 8 | June 12, 2020 01:00 | June 12, 2020 01:45 | 45m | 81 | 61 |
| 9 | March 23, 2020 19:45 | March 23, 2020 20:00 | 15m | 80 | 20 |
| 10 | July 20, 2020 01:30 | July 20, 2020 07:45 | 6h 15m | 76 | 213 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 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 Richland 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 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,109 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county