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2021 Richland County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Richland County, IL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.3 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2452nd 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 Richland 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 | October 11, 2021 20:00 | October 12, 2021 18:30 | 22h 30m | 708 | 3,950 |
| 2 | April 27, 2021 16:45 | April 27, 2021 21:30 | 4h 45m | 454 | 225 |
| 3 | August 29, 2021 09:15 | August 30, 2021 14:15 | 1d 5h | 431 | 1,123 |
| 4 | August 30, 2021 18:15 | August 30, 2021 22:00 | 3h 45m | 342 | 91 |
| 5 | February 6, 2021 01:45 | February 6, 2021 15:15 | 13h 30m | 227 | 2,951 |
| 6 | May 11, 2021 18:15 | May 11, 2021 21:30 | 3h 15m | 194 | 449 |
| 7 | August 12, 2021 22:30 | August 13, 2021 03:30 | 5h | 162 | 810 |
| 8 | July 24, 2021 02:45 | July 24, 2021 06:30 | 3h 45m | 155 | 511 |
| 9 | August 5, 2021 18:30 | August 5, 2021 21:30 | 3h | 130 | 133 |
| 10 | September 4, 2021 14:15 | September 4, 2021 16:15 | 2h | 129 | 258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 11 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 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 |
| 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 98% of Illinois's customers in 2021; 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, 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/richland-county