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2023 Menard County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Menard County, IL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Illinois average 4.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2073rd 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 Menard 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 | August 25, 2023 21:15 | August 26, 2023 16:00 | 18h 45m | 2,047 | 2,692 |
| 2 | November 29, 2023 19:45 | November 29, 2023 22:15 | 2h 30m | 1,154 | 866 |
| 3 | June 29, 2023 17:15 | July 1, 2023 17:00 | 1d 23h | 774 | 4,268 |
| 4 | August 28, 2023 10:30 | August 28, 2023 13:15 | 2h 45m | 383 | 788 |
| 5 | March 31, 2023 23:15 | April 1, 2023 00:15 | 1h | 263 | 263 |
| 6 | March 17, 2023 02:30 | March 17, 2023 05:30 | 3h | 91 | 89 |
| 7 | March 20, 2023 18:45 | March 20, 2023 19:45 | 1h | 91 | 24 |
| 8 | September 17, 2023 00:30 | September 17, 2023 02:45 | 2h 15m | 90 | 101 |
| 9 | August 7, 2023 14:15 | August 7, 2023 15:30 | 1h 15m | 51 | 64 |
| 10 | July 11, 2023 23:15 | July 12, 2023 03:30 | 4h 15m | 45 | 191 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Menard 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 |
| Menard Electric Coop | 2023 | 7.4 hrs | 2.47 | 1.6 hrs | 1.46 |
| 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 ÷ 4,167 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. Menard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Menard 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/menard-county