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County annual report · FIPS 17057

2021 Fulton County, IL Power Outage Report

In 2021, customers in Fulton County, IL went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1125th of 2,974 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
6.2
12,940 customers
Customer-hours out
80K
Peak customers out
3,557
Outages ≥1,000 out
1
0 of 10,000+ · 413 total
Longest outage
3d 18h
began June 19, 2021
Rank in state
14th/102
1125th of 2,974 US

Compared with IL, the US and 2020

Fulton County, IL average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2021Fulton County 6.2 hours, Illinois average 2.3 hours, US average 8.9 hours, Fulton County, 2020 3.2 hoursFulton CountyFulton County6.2hIllinois averageIllinois average2.3hUS averageUS average8.9hFulton County, 2020Fulton County, 20203.2h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2021; last bar is this county in 2020.

Month by month

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Fulton County, IL customer-hours without power by month, 2021Jan 3,180, Feb 83, Mar 169, Apr 820, May 2,239, Jun 61K, Jul 1,735, Aug 2,438, Sep 3,275, Oct 1,513, Nov 2,604, Dec 562020k40k60k80k3,180Jan83Feb169Mar820Apr2,239May61KJun1,735Jul2,438Aug3,275Sep1,513Oct2,604Nov562Dec
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Customer-hours; June was the worst month.

Fulton County year over year

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Fulton County, IL: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 3.1h; 2016: 2.1h; 2017: 0.9h; 2018: 2.2h, coverage 92%; 2019: 2.0h, coverage 99%; 2020: 3.2h, coverage 94%; 2021: 6.2h, coverage 98%; 2022: 1.8h, coverage 98%; 2023: 7.6h; 2024: 4.3h; 2025: 2.4h024680%50%100%3.1h20152.1h20160.9h20172.2h20182.0h20193.2h20206.2h20211.8h20227.6h20234.3h20242.4h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Fulton County, 2021

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1June 19, 2021 05:00June 22, 2021 23:453d 18h3,55761K
2October 24, 2021 21:15October 25, 2021 11:1514h6781,243
3September 19, 2021 13:00September 19, 2021 20:007h5031,663
4November 21, 2021 00:45November 21, 2021 01:1530m502251
5April 16, 2021 14:15April 16, 2021 21:307h 15m392333
6April 21, 2021 19:45April 21, 2021 21:001h 15m38898
7January 1, 2021 16:15January 2, 2021 20:451d 4h2941,277
8September 20, 2021 17:45September 21, 2021 20:151d 2h254790
9November 9, 2021 17:15November 10, 2021 01:458h 30m2541,585
10July 25, 2021 00:15July 25, 2021 17:4517h 30m197761

Outage episodes by size in 2021: 18 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 Fulton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Ameren Illinois Company20213.2 hrs1.112.0 hrs0.88
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McDonough Power Coop-----
Spoon River 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 98% of Illinois's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
  • Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,940 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. Fulton County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fulton 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/fulton-county

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