Bond County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bond County, Illinois had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.97 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 56 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 2, 2022, reached 3,411 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 18.2 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	8,436	5	0
2016	9,485	5	0
2017	942	6	0
2018	7,720	13	0
2019	11,682	13	0
2020	8,642	3	0
2021	7,944	9	0
2022	42,090	18	1
2023	52,462	27	2

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
Feb 2, 2022	18.2	3,411	18,578
Feb 22, 2023	16.0	1,575	16,234
Sep 28, 2023	3.2	3,252	9,728
Jul 16, 2023	9.0	1,185	5,806
Jul 29, 2020	2.0	3,342	5,291

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.