Piatt County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 1.64 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 39 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

76 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 1,811 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.5 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	6,443	8	0
2016	23,738	12	0
2017	20,582	12	1
2018	17,441	16	0
2019	11,974	13	0
2020	17,286	16	0
2021	31,750	13	0
2022	43,339	20	0
2023	82,105	11	2

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	75.5	1,811	63,141
Oct 23, 2022	6.5	5,277	23,249
Mar 18, 2021	7.0	5,305	22,611
Mar 3, 2023	11.5	6,376	13,410
Feb 26, 2017	2.8	4,812	11,533

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.