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2024 Fayette County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Fayette County, IL went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Illinois average 3.0 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 102 Illinois counties and 1421st 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 Fayette 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 | January 14, 2024 02:45 | January 14, 2024 21:45 | 19h | 1,599 | 6,423 |
| 2 | May 27, 2024 00:15 | May 27, 2024 22:30 | 22h 15m | 1,506 | 12K |
| 3 | July 10, 2024 01:00 | July 10, 2024 02:45 | 1h 45m | 1,147 | 1,703 |
| 4 | July 30, 2024 02:00 | July 31, 2024 15:15 | 1d 13h | 971 | 3,996 |
| 5 | April 13, 2024 13:00 | April 13, 2024 16:15 | 3h 15m | 806 | 1,308 |
| 6 | April 2, 2024 07:15 | April 2, 2024 14:45 | 7h 30m | 686 | 575 |
| 7 | July 16, 2024 09:15 | July 16, 2024 20:45 | 11h 30m | 663 | 637 |
| 8 | February 8, 2024 11:00 | February 8, 2024 12:15 | 1h 15m | 566 | 708 |
| 9 | March 7, 2024 11:30 | March 7, 2024 11:45 | 15m | 513 | 128 |
| 10 | January 12, 2024 22:30 | January 13, 2024 05:30 | 7h | 401 | 340 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 31 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 Fayette 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (IL) | 2024 | 5.1 hrs | 2.21 | 4.4 hrs | 1.78 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| M J M Electric Cooperative Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clinton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,295 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county