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

Power outage history

Douglas County Illinois

6.9hours

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

19th most of 101 in Illinois close to the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 29, 2023 100% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.9h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 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 4.2days Jun 29, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 68% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 31 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,333 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 Douglas'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 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Douglas, hours without power per customer

DouglasUS median countyIllinois average
0 10 20 30 40 2.6 ’15 9.4 ’16 0.9 ’17 2.1 ’18 2.6 ’19 4.8 ’20 3.2 ’21 5.5 ’22 31 ’23 1.6 ’24 3.9 ’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
Jun 29, 2023 Thunderstorms 8,333 100% 4.2 d 3.1 d 233k
Feb 24, 2016 Winter storm 7,847 94% 30 h 4.2 h 50k
Mar 15, 2025 No storm report 3,557 43% 12 h 1.0 h 12k
May 25, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,192 26% 9.0 h 3.2 h 9.5k
Aug 25, 2021 No storm report 4,431 53% 2.8 h 1.8 h 8.5k
May 9, 2020 No storm report 263 3% 32 h – 8.1k
Jun 7, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,382 29% 5.0 h 3.2 h 8.1k
Jul 13, 2016 No storm report 1,473 18% 5.8 h 4.0 h 6.9k
Jul 6, 2023 No storm report 1,752 21% 4.5 h 3.2 h 6.8k
May 11, 2016 No storm report 1,982 24% 3.8 h 2.8 h 6.7k
Jul 16, 2022 No storm report 402 5% 14 h – 5.7k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 2,131 26% 2.8 h 2.8 h 5.3k

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 +4h

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 Douglas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 64%
  • No storm on record 32%
  • Winter storm 2.5%
  • Windstorm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Douglas

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
Enerstar Power Corp IL 229 220 2.54 – 63k
Eastern Illinois Elec Coop Cooperative 223 157 2.22 17.7 11k
Coles-Moultrie Electric Coop Cooperative – – – 17.6 8.5k

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 8,333 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 →