Power Out Map
– 0% of Crawford out 0 customers out in Illinois

Power outage history

Crawford County Illinois

5.8hours

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

31st most of 101 in Illinois close to the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 1, 2023 84% of customers out · 90% back in 45 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.8h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.0days Mar 31, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,220 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 Crawford'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 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Crawford, hours without power per customer

CrawfordUS median countyIllinois average
0 5 10 15 20 25 0.5 ’15 1.4 ’16 0.4 ’17 3.3 ’18 1.3 ’19 8.1 ’20 2.0 ’21 4.4 ’22 19 ’23 3.2 ’24 5.4 ’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
Mar 31, 2023 Tornadoes 8,583 84% 3.0 d 45 h 142k
Apr 8, 2020 Thunderstorms 4,016 39% 26 h 16 h 44k
May 31, 2018 Tropical Storm Alberto 3,644 36% 27 h 6.8 h 22k
Jun 29, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,377 13% 26 h 8.5 h 14k
Jan 18, 2020 No storm report 2,856 28% 40 h 1.8 h 12k
Apr 5, 2023 No storm report 6,554 64% 8.5 h 3.8 h 11k
Jun 18, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,980 29% 11 h 11 h 10k
Mar 6, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,480 14% 12 h 6.8 h 7.5k
Jul 28, 2025 No storm report 1,287 13% 13 h 16 h 5.4k
Jul 11, 2020 No storm report 1,750 17% 3.8 h 2.2 h 4.5k
Feb 28, 2021 No storm report 3,079 30% 1.5 h 1.5 h 4.3k
May 26, 2024 No storm report 1,064 10% 6.5 h 3.2 h 4.2k

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 +2h 90% by +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 40%
  • Tornadoes 35%
  • Thunderstorms 19%
  • Tropical storm 5.7%
  • Flooding 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Crawford

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
Norris Electric Coop Cooperative – – – 15.1 18k

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 10,220 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 →