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2023 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Illinois average 4.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2088th 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 Ford 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 | March 3, 2023 15:45 | March 5, 2023 00:15 | 1d 8h | 784 | 2,413 |
| 2 | May 8, 2023 03:15 | May 8, 2023 11:15 | 8h | 473 | 984 |
| 3 | June 25, 2023 22:30 | June 26, 2023 03:00 | 4h 30m | 345 | 1,031 |
| 4 | May 15, 2023 03:00 | May 15, 2023 11:30 | 8h 30m | 323 | 304 |
| 5 | February 27, 2023 16:00 | February 27, 2023 19:15 | 3h 15m | 235 | 296 |
| 6 | January 24, 2023 19:30 | January 24, 2023 22:15 | 2h 45m | 190 | 200 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 01:00 | April 2, 2023 06:45 | 1d 5h | 175 | 3,894 |
| 8 | May 8, 2023 12:15 | May 9, 2023 01:15 | 13h | 170 | 304 |
| 9 | March 6, 2023 19:45 | March 6, 2023 20:15 | 30m | 114 | 57 |
| 10 | June 29, 2023 18:45 | July 1, 2023 20:30 | 2d 1h | 105 | 1,308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 10 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 Ford 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 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | 0.61 | 35 min | 0.48 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2023 | 6.5 hrs | 4.54 | 2.6 hrs | 3.88 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2023 | 10.2 hrs | 2.06 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 |
| 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 n/a of Illinois's customers in 2023; 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, 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/ford-county