De Witt County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

De Witt County, Illinois had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.35 times the US outage time per person and 3.18 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 7 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Janhardest months

June and January made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 5,542 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.5 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	9,940	8	0
2016	10,471	13	0
2017	37,582	11	2
2018	15,652	20	0
2019	17,494	12	0
2020	18,198	10	1
2021	71,785	28	2
2022	24,551	18	0
2023	248,216	22	6

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
Jun 29, 2023	80.5	5,542	199,767
Jan 3, 2021	43.0	3,006	34,888
Feb 25, 2017	9.2	3,613	26,355
Dec 30, 2023	16.0	1,043	11,407
Mar 18, 2021	12.2	1,282	9,172

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.