Crawford County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Crawford County, Illinois had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.81 times the US outage time per person and 1.92 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 24 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 8,583 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	3,490	4	0
2016	8,623	10	0
2017	2,171	3	0
2018	28,192	9	1
2019	5,130	11	0
2020	63,926	18	1
2021	11,044	14	0
2022	30,294	36	0
2023	176,652	22	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Apr 1, 2023	71.2	8,583	142,225
Apr 9, 2020	20.8	4,016	36,728
May 31, 2018	12.2	3,644	19,602
Jun 29, 2023	11.2	1,377	10,922
Apr 5, 2023	6.5	6,554	10,572

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.