Woodford County, Illinois Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Woodford County, Illinois had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.71 times the US outage time per person and 1.68 times the Illinois rate. It ranks 38 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Janhardest months

December and January made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 28, 2015, reached 7,536 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.8 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	244,068	22	3
2016	24,012	20	0
2017	9,671	5	0
2018	14,394	10	1
2019	36,470	26	2
2020	68,431	24	2
2021	109,681	35	4
2022	19,600	24	0
2023	72,762	20	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
Dec 28, 2015	55.8	7,536	210,981
May 8, 2023	29.2	4,105	43,335
Jan 1, 2021	38.0	2,702	38,859
Jul 12, 2020	25.8	1,931	32,642
Jan 3, 2021	35.5	1,077	17,376

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.