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2023 Pope County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pope County, IL went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 1,789 customer-hours (Illinois average 4.0 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2689th 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 Pope 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 | November 20, 2023 23:30 | November 21, 2023 05:45 | 6h 15m | 141 | 251 |
| 2 | November 21, 2023 19:30 | November 21, 2023 20:00 | 30m | 107 | 36 |
| 3 | December 1, 2023 14:00 | December 1, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 59 | 15 |
| 4 | July 20, 2023 12:15 | July 20, 2023 12:30 | 15m | 54 | 14 |
| 5 | August 4, 2023 13:45 | August 4, 2023 15:15 | 1h 30m | 49 | 65 |
| 6 | January 12, 2023 10:45 | January 12, 2023 13:45 | 3h | 48 | 29 |
| 7 | December 21, 2023 18:15 | December 21, 2023 18:30 | 15m | 44 | 11 |
| 8 | December 21, 2023 20:15 | December 21, 2023 20:30 | 15m | 44 | 11 |
| 9 | January 3, 2023 04:15 | January 3, 2023 08:00 | 3h 45m | 41 | 144 |
| 10 | January 25, 2023 17:00 | January 25, 2023 22:15 | 5h 15m | 41 | 132 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Pope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.80 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Southern Illinois Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,842 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. Pope County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county