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2024 Ford County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ford County, IL went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Illinois average 3.0 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2055th 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 Ford 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 | June 14, 2024 02:00 | June 15, 2024 03:15 | 1d 1h | 2,139 | 7,462 |
| 2 | January 8, 2024 16:45 | January 8, 2024 17:30 | 45m | 1,096 | 764 |
| 3 | May 20, 2024 23:30 | May 21, 2024 08:15 | 8h 45m | 646 | 614 |
| 4 | October 25, 2024 18:30 | October 26, 2024 01:15 | 6h 45m | 469 | 177 |
| 5 | April 1, 2024 04:30 | April 1, 2024 09:30 | 5h | 370 | 368 |
| 6 | May 22, 2024 03:45 | May 23, 2024 01:30 | 21h 45m | 248 | 990 |
| 7 | May 2, 2024 20:00 | May 2, 2024 21:15 | 1h 15m | 135 | 159 |
| 8 | June 23, 2024 07:30 | June 23, 2024 11:45 | 4h 15m | 128 | 544 |
| 9 | February 26, 2024 21:00 | February 27, 2024 00:45 | 3h 45m | 127 | 263 |
| 10 | February 24, 2024 05:00 | February 24, 2024 18:30 | 13h 30m | 89 | 560 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 9 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 Ford 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 |
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.68 | 36 min | 0.49 |
| Corn Belt Energy Corporation | 2024 | 5.2 hrs | 5.21 | 2.5 hrs | 4.68 |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | 2024 | 4.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.2 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/ford-county