Power outage history
Monroe County Illinois
7.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
15th most of 101 in Illinois close to the national median
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 Monroe's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Monroe, hours without power per customer
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 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 7,417 | 48% | 4.0 d | 3.0 d | 382k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,159 | 59% | 2.9 d | 21 h | 175k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 6,847 | 44% | 2.1 d | 6.2 h | 86k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,730 | 24% | 46 h | 25 h | 39k |
| Mar 18, 2020 | No storm report | 1,092 | 7% | 24 h | 19 h | 24k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Heat | 2,645 | 17% | 30 h | 1.2 h | 16k |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Tornadoes | 2,499 | 16% | 10 h | 4.8 h | 14k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Tornadoes | 881 | 6% | 23 h | 20 h | 10k |
| Jan 18, 2023 | No storm report | 3,378 | 22% | 9.0 h | 1.5 h | 10k |
| Oct 22, 2021 | No storm report | 2,173 | 14% | 3.8 h | 2.2 h | 7.9k |
| Jul 19, 2020 | No storm report | 507 | 3% | 15 h | – | 6.6k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 3,023 | 19% | 4.8 h | 1.2 h | 5.8k |
| Nov 17, 2024 | No storm report | 1,447 | 9% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 5.1k |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Heat | 916 | 6% | 6.2 h | 5.8 h | 5.1k |
| Dec 25, 2023 | No storm report | 5,948 | 38% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 4.7k |
| Jul 25, 2020 | No storm report | 1,634 | 10% | 3.5 h | 4.5 h | 4.4k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,203 | 8% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 4.2k |
| Jul 7, 2018 | No storm report | 621 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 3.8k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 443 | 3% | 10 h | – | 3.7k |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 581 | 4% | 12 h | – | 3.3k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,114 | 7% | 3.0 h | 1.8 h | 3.2k |
| Aug 4, 2022 | Flooding | 481 | 3% | 9.2 h | – | 3.2k |
| May 19, 2022 | No storm report | 346 | 2% | 11 h | – | 3.1k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,675 | 11% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.9k |
| Jan 17, 2020 | No storm report | 654 | 4% | 8.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Sep 13, 2025 | No storm report | 643 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 2.7k |
| Mar 9, 2016 | No storm report | 507 | 3% | 8.2 h | – | 2.4k |
| Aug 1, 2016 | No storm report | 863 | 6% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 2.3k |
| Aug 13, 2015 | No storm report | 535 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jun 2, 2018 | No storm report | 625 | 4% | 4.0 h | – | 2.2k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Monroe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 75%
- No storm on record 19%
- Tornadoes 3.0%
- Heat 2.0%
- Winter storm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Monroe
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 |
| Monroe County Elec Coop, Inc | IL | 209 | 209 | 1.44 | 14.4 | 103k |
| City of Waterloo | IL | – | – | – | – | 45k |
| Egyptian Electric Coop Assn | Cooperative | 773 | 24 | 4.62 | 16.2 | 14k |
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
- Monroe (this county) 7.3 h
- Jefferson, MO 5.7 h
- St. Clair 5.3 h
- Ste. Genevieve, MO 4.5 h
- Randolph 4.4 h
- St. Louis, MO 3.8 h
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 15,588 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 →