Saline County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Saline County, Illinois had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.97 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 56 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2018, reached 4,477 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 13.5 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	5,513	8	0
2016	10,329	13	1
2017	10,208	11	0
2018	65,855	31	3
2019	16,832	20	0
2020	31,025	13	2
2021	1,284	7	0
2022	16,886	16	2
2023	48,925	18	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, 2018	13.5	4,477	41,878
Aug 22, 2020	12.2	1,208	12,920
Feb 9, 2023	10.0	1,773	10,593
Aug 7, 2023	3.0	3,502	9,340
Jun 29, 2018	9.0	2,267	8,987

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.