Tazewell County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tazewell County, Illinois had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 48 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 28, 2015, reached 18,680 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.8 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	528,710	69	4
2016	89,394	47	3
2017	28,599	19	0
2018	54,704	57	0
2019	89,924	71	1
2020	147,486	59	3
2021	347,160	81	5
2022	73,452	66	2
2023	165,757	71	3

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 28, 2015	55.8	18,680	407,340
Jan 1, 2021	59.5	4,949	127,535
Jun 19, 2021	35.2	8,615	79,428
May 8, 2023	27.0	8,119	57,539
Jun 11, 2015	21.8	5,639	38,534

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.