Randolph County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Randolph County, Illinois had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.65 times the US outage time per person and 1.54 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 43 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 19, 2022, reached 3,958 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 25.2 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	21,545	15	0
2016	77,194	26	2
2017	63,108	13	0
2018	31,727	22	1
2019	30,688	26	1
2020	24,110	22	1
2021	27,818	13	1
2022	89,289	17	2
2023	63,618	25	4

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
May 19, 2022	25.2	3,958	48,185
Jul 13, 2016	45.8	2,692	42,924
Jul 29, 2023	27.0	4,304	21,974
Jan 9, 2022	17.8	1,074	19,064
Mar 1, 2017	3.5	5,023	15,814

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.