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

Power outage history

Gallatin County Illinois

12hours

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

3rd most of 101 in Illinois 1.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 6, 2025 80% of customers out · 90% back in 3.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 12h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.0 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 6.9days Jan 5, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 2.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,453 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 Gallatin'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 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gallatin, hours without power per customer

GallatinUS median countyIllinois average
0 20 40 60 3.3 ’15 2.5 ’16 2.5 ’17 12 ’18 6.2 ’19 3.1 ’20 2.1 ’21 4.9 ’22 3.6 ’23 16 ’24 52 ’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 1,954 80% 6.9 d 3.3 d 109k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,065 84% 44 h 48 min 21k
Jun 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,005 41% 15 h 6.8 h 6.8k
Apr 2, 2025 No storm report 965 39% 16 h 12 h 5.7k
Apr 2, 2024 Tornadoes 597 24% 18 h 9.8 h 5.7k
Aug 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,687 69% 2.2 h 2.0 h 3.4k
Feb 7, 2018 Winter storm 942 38% 5.0 h 8.8 h 3.4k
Jul 17, 2022 No storm report 1,827 74% 2.2 h 2.0 h 3.4k
Jul 5, 2024 Heat 1,991 81% 1.8 h 1.5 h 3.2k
Sep 24, 2024 No storm report 1,582 64% 2.0 h 4.2 h 3.2k
Jun 26, 2018 Thunderstorms 432 18% 11 h 8.8 h 2.3k
Jan 10, 2017 Windstorm 2,324 95% 1.0 h 1.5 h 2.3k

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 +6h

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

  • Ice storm 49%
  • No storm on record 20%
  • Thunderstorms 17%
  • Heat 3.9%
  • Winter storm 3.3%
  • Tornadoes 2.6%
  • Flooding 2.2%
  • Windstorm 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gallatin

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
Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 2,214 172 3.95 14.8 23k
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 2,453 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 →