Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Bond County Illinois

5.9hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

27th most of 101 in Illinois close to the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 2, 2022 59% of customers out · 90% back in 16 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.9h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 35hours Feb 2, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 30% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,736 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bond's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bond, hours without power per customer

BondUS median countyIllinois average
0 5 10 15 2.1 ’15 2.8 ’16 0.5 ’17 3.5 ’18 3.9 ’19 2.7 ’20 3.0 ’21 9.9 ’22 13 ’23 8.0 ’24 4.0 ’25 US 6.6 IL 2.9

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Feb 2, 2022 Winter storm 3,411 59% 35 h 16 h 23k
Feb 22, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,575 27% 16 h 15 h 16k
Sep 28, 2023 No storm report 3,252 57% 3.2 h 2.8 h 9.7k
Jul 13, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,379 24% 27 h 4.5 h 6.2k
Jul 16, 2023 No storm report 1,185 21% 10 h 8.8 h 6.1k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 590 10% 19 h 17 h 5.3k
Jul 29, 2020 No storm report 3,342 58% 2.0 h 1.5 h 5.3k
Jul 31, 2022 No storm report 3,333 58% 6.0 h 1.2 h 4.8k
Jun 28, 2018 Heat 612 11% 14 h 9.2 h 4.5k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 1,510 26% 13 h 4.5 h 4.4k
Apr 24, 2024 No storm report 1,314 23% 4.2 h 4.2 h 4.3k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 706 12% 11 h 7.2 h 4.3k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bond from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 70%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Heat 2.0%
  • Tornadoes 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bond

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Illinois territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Ameren Illinois Company Investor Owned 287 130 1.19 16.7 1.1M
M J M Electric Cooperative Inc IL 1,945 440 – 15.4 113k
City of Highland IL 35 30 0.40 11.9 68k
Southwestern Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 241 195 1.92 15.4 24k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Illinois

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Illinois counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 5,736 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →