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2024 Menard County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Menard County, IL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 4,554 customer-hours (Illinois average 3.0 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2704th 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 Menard 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 | April 17, 2024 13:45 | April 17, 2024 17:30 | 3h 45m | 1,731 | 1,609 |
| 2 | March 5, 2024 15:45 | March 5, 2024 17:15 | 1h 30m | 331 | 372 |
| 3 | November 1, 2024 14:45 | November 1, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 254 | 127 |
| 4 | October 25, 2024 06:15 | October 25, 2024 10:00 | 3h 45m | 251 | 749 |
| 5 | May 21, 2024 22:30 | May 22, 2024 01:30 | 3h | 72 | 157 |
| 6 | April 16, 2024 20:15 | April 16, 2024 21:15 | 1h | 66 | 66 |
| 7 | July 30, 2024 12:45 | July 30, 2024 17:30 | 4h 45m | 63 | 161 |
| 8 | January 12, 2024 21:00 | January 12, 2024 22:15 | 1h 15m | 51 | 64 |
| 9 | April 18, 2024 23:45 | April 19, 2024 02:30 | 2h 45m | 51 | 140 |
| 10 | October 2, 2024 13:45 | October 2, 2024 15:15 | 1h 30m | 39 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Menard Electric Coop | 2024 | 2.8 hrs | 1.49 | 1.9 hrs | 1.27 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/menard-county