Morgan County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.81 times the US outage time per person and 1.92 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 24 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

121 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 7,265 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 121.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	36,649	12	1
2016	15,754	11	1
2017	20,136	9	0
2018	29,204	20	0
2019	40,146	24	1
2020	21,927	16	0
2021	36,078	21	2
2022	30,232	16	1
2023	353,858	7	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
Jun 29, 2023	121.0	7,265	343,207
Jul 14, 2015	11.5	4,172	20,683
Oct 24, 2021	14.5	1,841	17,346
Sep 19, 2022	14.5	1,661	15,089
May 1, 2019	12.5	979	11,997

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.