Lawrence County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lawrence County, Illinois had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.76 times the US outage time per person and 1.80 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 34 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 4,876 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.0 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	11,532	4	1
2016	23,922	12	3
2017	6,446	4	1
2018	11,225	4	0
2019	11,868	10	0
2020	86,066	8	1
2021	4,090	11	0
2022	35,944	20	0
2023	57,726	16	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	23.0	4,876	70,588
Jun 29, 2023	28.8	1,706	23,803
Apr 1, 2023	4.2	5,212	16,996
Apr 9, 2020	4.2	4,835	11,587
Jun 22, 2015	15.5	2,049	9,532

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.