County annual report · FIPS 17049
2023 Effingham County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Effingham County, IL went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Illinois average 4.0 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2032nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Effingham County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 3, 2023 21:45 | April 3, 2023 23:30 | 1h 45m | 3,762 | 5,283 |
| 2 | April 16, 2023 02:15 | April 16, 2023 07:45 | 5h 30m | 1,860 | 5,834 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 01:45 | April 2, 2023 00:00 | 22h 15m | 1,133 | 3,639 |
| 4 | June 27, 2023 11:00 | June 27, 2023 14:45 | 3h 45m | 945 | 2,252 |
| 5 | March 4, 2023 13:15 | March 4, 2023 20:00 | 6h 45m | 816 | 555 |
| 6 | August 27, 2023 07:00 | August 27, 2023 08:15 | 1h 15m | 814 | 874 |
| 7 | February 22, 2023 21:00 | February 23, 2023 15:30 | 18h 30m | 763 | 1,643 |
| 8 | April 29, 2023 13:45 | April 29, 2023 16:15 | 2h 30m | 575 | 845 |
| 9 | August 25, 2023 19:15 | August 26, 2023 08:00 | 12h 45m | 542 | 2,159 |
| 10 | August 7, 2023 00:45 | August 7, 2023 10:30 | 9h 45m | 536 | 1,736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Effingham County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 9.9 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (IL) | 2023 | 6.2 hrs | 2.74 | 4.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Altamont - (IL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Illinois's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,830 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham County, IL annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/illinois/effingham-county