Jasper County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jasper County, Illinois had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.03 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 54 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 1,876 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.2 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	392	1	0
2016	1,118	3	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	1,869	3	0
2019	1,799	5	0
2020	29,576	12	1
2021	4,269	4	0
2022	22,538	18	0
2023	26,044	14	1

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
Apr 9, 2020	20.2	1,876	18,645
Jun 17, 2022	5.8	1,565	8,370
Apr 1, 2023	18.0	627	7,113
Apr 5, 2023	3.5	2,356	4,845
Jul 19, 2022	3.2	1,220	3,371

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.