Livingston County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Livingston County, Illinois had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person and 1.88 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 26 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

55 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 28, 2015, reached 8,057 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.0 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	173,824	25	1
2016	43,781	20	0
2017	25,084	20	1
2018	50,154	33	2
2019	27,816	19	1
2020	202,162	22	5
2021	56,847	26	3
2022	23,648	25	1
2023	17,516	12	1

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
Dec 28, 2015	55.0	8,057	149,711
Aug 11, 2020	43.2	2,585	59,394
Jul 12, 2020	42.2	2,664	44,962
Aug 10, 2020	12.5	3,706	39,553
Aug 11, 2020	10.8	2,553	26,237

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.