Franklin County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Illinois had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 1.77 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 35 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

23 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2018, reached 4,074 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 14.5 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	24,858	12	1
2016	43,739	21	1
2017	16,044	16	1
2018	240,766	73	6
2019	99,939	54	4
2020	40,984	18	1
2021	50,001	32	2
2022	29,870	24	1
2023	64,668	22	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
Jun 29, 2018	14.5	4,074	45,081
Jun 30, 2018	23.0	2,254	38,059
Jun 24, 2018	16.0	2,454	35,533
Jun 29, 2018	9.0	3,060	22,548
Jul 29, 2023	14.8	3,099	16,984

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.