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2024 Alexander County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Alexander County, IL went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 6,859 customer-hours (Illinois average 3.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2291st of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alexander County, 2024
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 16, 2024 01:45 | August 16, 2024 11:15 | 9h 30m | 502 | 172 |
| 2 | May 27, 2024 01:30 | May 28, 2024 21:15 | 1d 19h | 423 | 4,702 |
| 3 | May 26, 2024 15:00 | May 26, 2024 21:45 | 6h 45m | 194 | 1,222 |
| 4 | June 10, 2024 02:15 | June 10, 2024 04:15 | 2h | 145 | 146 |
| 5 | April 17, 2024 15:45 | April 18, 2024 00:45 | 9h | 137 | 323 |
| 6 | February 15, 2024 17:15 | February 15, 2024 18:30 | 1h 15m | 11 | 14 |
| 7 | June 30, 2024 23:30 | July 1, 2024 03:00 | 3h 30m | 10 | 22 |
| 8 | April 2, 2024 10:00 | April 2, 2024 12:00 | 2h | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | March 25, 2024 19:45 | March 25, 2024 21:15 | 1h 30m | 6 | 8 |
| 10 | March 25, 2024 22:00 | March 26, 2024 01:15 | 3h 15m | 6 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 5 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 Alexander County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.13 | 2.0 hrs | 0.91 |
| Southern Illinois Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cairo Public Utility Company | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,842 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. Alexander County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alexander County, IL annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/illinois/alexander-county