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

Power outage history

Wayne County Illinois

2.2hours

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

85th most of 101 in Illinois 67% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 17, 2022 40% of customers out · 90% back in 11 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.2h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.7 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 15hours May 8, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 45% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 4.1 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,404 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Wayne'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wayne, hours without power per customer

WayneUS median countyIllinois average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 0.7 ’20 0.7 ’21 3.7 ’22 1.5 ’23 4.1 ’24 2.3 ’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 17, 2022 Heat 4,138 40% 13 h 11 h 12k
May 8, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,839 18% 15 h 15 h 10k
Aug 1, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,406 52% 8.0 h 1.2 h 9.0k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,196 50% 5.2 h 1.2 h 4.0k
Jun 18, 2025 No storm report 499 5% 9.0 h – 3.8k
Dec 3, 2022 No storm report 3,073 30% 1.5 h 1.5 h 3.7k
Apr 29, 2025 No storm report 991 10% 8.0 h 4.8 h 3.5k
Jul 30, 2022 No storm report 2,772 27% 1.2 h 1.2 h 3.4k
Mar 15, 2025 No storm report 2,233 21% 2.2 h 48 min 3.1k
May 25, 2022 No storm report 1,024 10% 2.2 h 2.2 h 2.3k
Jul 29, 2023 Thunderstorms 876 8% 4.2 h 2.5 h 2.1k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 1,359 13% 3.0 h 2.2 h 2.1k

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

  • No storm on record 55%
  • Thunderstorms 28%
  • Heat 12%
  • Tropical storm 3.2%
  • Windstorm 2.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wayne

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
City of Fairfield IL – – – – 37k
Clay Electric Coop Inc IL 699 – 0.22 – 37k
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL) Cooperative 132 63 1.64 16.2 16k
Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop Cooperative – – – 16.4 12k

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 10,404 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 →