Fayette County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fayette County, Illinois had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.69 times the US outage time per person and 1.62 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 41 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

27 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 17, 2022, reached 4,191 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,813	5	0
2016	23,915	11	2
2017	10,278	5	1
2018	32,074	26	0
2019	20,477	22	0
2020	37,969	23	1
2021	34,403	26	1
2022	79,142	29	1
2023	80,160	30	5

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 17, 2022	27.2	4,191	42,306
Feb 22, 2023	23.8	5,822	28,174
May 25, 2020	12.0	2,883	19,862
Jul 9, 2022	5.8	3,120	11,067
Apr 16, 2023	9.0	2,155	10,363

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.