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2025 DeKalb County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in DeKalb County, IL went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 100th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 2858th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in DeKalb County, 2025
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 18, 2025 15:00 | August 19, 2025 20:00 | 1d 5h | 2,327 | 3,052 |
| 2 | October 8, 2025 21:45 | October 9, 2025 02:15 | 4h 30m | 1,358 | 786 |
| 3 | August 16, 2025 21:30 | August 17, 2025 22:45 | 1d 1h | 1,243 | 6,823 |
| 4 | March 10, 2025 02:15 | March 10, 2025 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,041 | 521 |
| 5 | March 19, 2025 22:30 | March 19, 2025 22:45 | 15m | 1,027 | 257 |
| 6 | May 8, 2025 03:30 | May 8, 2025 05:15 | 1h 45m | 933 | 953 |
| 7 | May 15, 2025 23:45 | May 17, 2025 02:15 | 1d 2h | 747 | 581 |
| 8 | March 15, 2025 05:00 | March 16, 2025 09:45 | 1d 4h | 726 | 3,507 |
| 9 | November 26, 2025 14:30 | November 27, 2025 00:45 | 10h 15m | 701 | 1,018 |
| 10 | September 5, 2025 12:30 | September 5, 2025 13:00 | 30m | 666 | 333 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 56 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 DeKalb County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.68 | 36 min | 0.49 |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 79,682 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. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb County, IL annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/illinois/dekalb-county