Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Hardin County Illinois

7.0hours

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

17th most of 101 in Illinois close to the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 7, 2025 35% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.0h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 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 5.2days Jan 5, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 62% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 20 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,910 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 Hardin'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hardin, hours without power per customer

HardinUS median countyIllinois average
0 5 10 15 20 25 4.0 ’17 19 ’18 5.3 ’19 2.3 ’20 3.3 ’21 2.1 ’22 1.7 ’23 2.6 ’24 20 ’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
Jan 5, 2025 Ice storm 665 35% 5.2 d 2.1 d 30k
Jan 12, 2018 Winter storm 1,512 79% 7.5 h 6.0 h 8.1k
Jun 29, 2018 Heat 658 34% 31 h 27 h 7.0k
Dec 2, 2018 No storm report 921 48% 7.8 h 7.2 h 6.3k
May 27, 2017 No storm report 656 34% 9.0 h 2.2 h 3.8k
Jun 29, 2018 No storm report 1,445 76% 3.2 h 15 h 3.2k
Aug 29, 2018 No storm report 1,712 90% 3.0 h 2.0 h 2.8k
Jul 14, 2018 Heat 1,019 53% 3.5 h 1.0 h 2.6k
May 27, 2017 No storm report 614 32% 9.2 h 1.0 h 1.5k
Apr 3, 2018 No storm report 846 44% 4.0 h 1.5 h 1.4k
Aug 19, 2025 Thunderstorms 489 26% 13 h 1.8 h 1.4k
Aug 23, 2021 No storm report 513 27% 6.2 h 1.0 h 1.1k

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

  • No storm on record 38%
  • Ice storm 33%
  • Heat 12%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Thunderstorms 2.6%
  • Windstorm 2.2%
  • Tropical storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hardin

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
Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 2,214 172 3.95 14.8 23k

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 1,910 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 →