Moultrie County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Moultrie County, Illinois had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.22 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 86 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

39 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Febhardest months

December and February made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 11, 2021, reached 1,314 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.8 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	586	1	0
2016	4,294	3	0
2017	188	1	0
2018	3,936	4	0
2019	1,866	2	0
2020	8,050	11	0
2021	19,798	7	1
2022	27,280	28	2
2023	2,770	4	0

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
Dec 11, 2021	38.8	1,314	15,803
Mar 6, 2022	13.5	628	7,994
Feb 3, 2022	4.8	2,608	5,434
Apr 8, 2020	4.2	1,440	4,849
Feb 3, 2022	12.5	264	3,215

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.