Lee County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lee County, Illinois had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.49 times the US outage time per person and 3.51 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 4 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 8,782 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.2 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	224,877	57	2
2016	16,352	8	0
2017	44,680	22	3
2018	14,634	12	0
2019	85,973	24	1
2020	207,747	22	4
2021	109,361	34	3
2022	18,962	15	2
2023	374,381	21	3

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 1, 2023	48.2	8,782	277,570
Aug 10, 2020	67.8	5,925	172,966
Dec 28, 2015	33.5	4,559	94,791
Aug 11, 2021	19.0	9,310	73,821
Feb 12, 2019	48.0	5,849	69,492

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.