Vermilion County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Vermilion County, Illinois had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.31 times the US outage time per person and 3.09 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 10 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 29, 2023, reached 32,688 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 138.0 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	65,854	34	2
2016	90,191	39	2
2017	26,004	19	0
2018	57,692	39	2
2019	137,991	49	2
2020	50,288	39	1
2021	46,747	46	0
2022	69,866	44	1
2023	1,503,434	39	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
Jun 29, 2023	138.0	32,688	1,439,188
May 23, 2019	14.5	4,844	31,235
Feb 24, 2016	16.5	7,527	26,344
Mar 3, 2023	17.5	2,377	14,585
Jul 12, 2016	14.2	2,966	14,344

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.