Adams County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Adams County, Illinois had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person and 1.89 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 26 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

49 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Novhardest months

July and November made up 83% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 13, 2015, reached 21,688 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	827,266	27	3
2016	52,633	14	1
2017	21,801	10	0
2018	8,364	13	0
2019	31,578	27	0
2020	28,600	25	0
2021	29,426	23	2
2022	58,804	45	1
2023	70,904	26	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jul 13, 2015	23.0	21,688	435,956
Jul 14, 2015	48.8	16,551	334,887
Jul 1, 2023	29.2	5,135	38,094
Jul 13, 2016	17.2	6,703	37,832
Nov 12, 2015	15.8	2,210	17,122

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.