Henry County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Henry County, Illinois had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 1.81 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 31 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

113 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 10, 2020, reached 6,594 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 113.2 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	122,901	23	2
2016	23,694	9	0
2017	14,232	16	0
2018	12,162	9	1
2019	54,330	32	2
2020	359,799	35	3
2021	67,198	36	0
2022	41,598	36	0
2023	116,313	33	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
Aug 10, 2020	113.2	6,594	275,620
Dec 28, 2015	44.2	2,286	62,303
Mar 31, 2023	31.2	5,312	56,634
Apr 4, 2023	17.2	2,381	30,588
Jul 12, 2020	16.5	3,846	27,273

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.