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2025 Pope County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Pope County, IL went without power for an average of 24.8 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Illinois average 2.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 102 Illinois counties and 249th 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 Pope 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 | January 5, 2025 16:00 | January 12, 2025 22:00 | 7d 6h | 749 | 34K |
| 2 | July 20, 2025 23:30 | July 21, 2025 03:00 | 3h 30m | 605 | 1,882 |
| 3 | December 18, 2025 22:30 | December 19, 2025 14:00 | 15h 30m | 600 | 2,041 |
| 4 | May 1, 2025 12:45 | May 1, 2025 13:15 | 30m | 536 | 135 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 06:45 | March 16, 2025 20:00 | 1d 13h | 402 | 2,160 |
| 6 | April 14, 2025 08:15 | April 14, 2025 09:15 | 1h | 257 | 224 |
| 7 | March 5, 2025 12:45 | March 5, 2025 16:45 | 4h | 206 | 261 |
| 8 | February 28, 2025 20:00 | February 28, 2025 21:30 | 1h 30m | 138 | 114 |
| 9 | July 8, 2025 19:00 | July 8, 2025 19:30 | 30m | 129 | 33 |
| 10 | May 11, 2025 19:45 | May 11, 2025 20:00 | 15m | 116 | 29 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 12 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Pope 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc | 2024 | 10.0 hrs | 3.07 | 2.3 hrs | 1.50 |
| Southern Illinois Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,842 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. Pope County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county