Kankakee County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kankakee County, Illinois had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 2.10 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 20 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 11, 2020, reached 18,192 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Illinois counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	161,798	99	2
2016	88,752	26	2
2017	56,852	56	1
2018	77,801	54	1
2019	377,916	54	3
2020	1,137,850	53	4
2021	55,529	60	1
2022	49,216	40	1
2023	81,149	39	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
Aug 11, 2020	43.2	18,192	448,016
Jun 30, 2019	54.2	17,728	319,957
Aug 10, 2020	10.8	26,788	259,219
Aug 11, 2020	10.8	23,096	227,058
Aug 13, 2020	73.8	6,104	156,511

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.