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2021 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.3 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1107th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ford County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 12, 2021 14:45 | August 13, 2021 22:00 | 1d 7h | 2,167 | 6,308 |
| 2 | January 1, 2021 16:00 | January 6, 2021 14:45 | 4d 22h | 953 | 8,784 |
| 3 | September 30, 2021 21:45 | October 1, 2021 02:45 | 5h | 700 | 1,333 |
| 4 | March 29, 2021 15:15 | March 29, 2021 23:00 | 7h 45m | 652 | 993 |
| 5 | January 26, 2021 09:30 | January 26, 2021 11:30 | 2h | 564 | 996 |
| 6 | February 7, 2021 09:15 | February 7, 2021 12:00 | 2h 45m | 564 | 709 |
| 7 | August 10, 2021 21:45 | August 11, 2021 02:30 | 4h 45m | 516 | 1,745 |
| 8 | November 12, 2021 15:15 | November 12, 2021 16:15 | 1h | 516 | 263 |
| 9 | April 3, 2021 19:15 | April 4, 2021 00:15 | 5h | 499 | 1,986 |
| 10 | March 15, 2021 16:30 | March 17, 2021 00:45 | 1d 8h | 485 | 4,235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 14 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.11 | 2.0 hrs | 0.88 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.77 | 43 min | 0.59 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2021 | 12.3 hrs | 6.64 | 3.7 hrs | 4.71 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 2.37 | 2.2 hrs | 1.25 |
| 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 98% of Illinois's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/illinois/ford-county