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2024 Richland County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Richland County, IL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Illinois average 3.0 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2231st 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 Richland 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 29, 2024 05:30 | August 29, 2024 08:45 | 3h 15m | 1,033 | 2,567 |
| 2 | July 30, 2024 15:15 | July 31, 2024 07:15 | 16h | 985 | 2,085 |
| 3 | August 10, 2024 06:15 | August 10, 2024 08:00 | 1h 45m | 847 | 505 |
| 4 | August 17, 2024 15:00 | August 17, 2024 19:45 | 4h 45m | 676 | 1,393 |
| 5 | September 27, 2024 22:00 | September 28, 2024 16:30 | 18h 30m | 542 | 2,645 |
| 6 | May 27, 2024 01:15 | May 27, 2024 19:30 | 18h 15m | 498 | 1,404 |
| 7 | May 9, 2024 01:30 | May 9, 2024 14:30 | 13h | 481 | 3,010 |
| 8 | April 27, 2024 06:15 | April 27, 2024 11:15 | 5h | 449 | 1,344 |
| 9 | July 16, 2024 15:45 | July 16, 2024 23:45 | 8h | 418 | 1,166 |
| 10 | August 28, 2024 12:30 | August 28, 2024 13:15 | 45m | 410 | 207 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 18 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 Richland 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 |
| Ameren | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Norris Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clay Electric 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 ÷ 9,109 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county