Power outage history
Moultrie County Illinois
2.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
80th most of 101 in Illinois 61% below 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 Moultrie's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Moultrie, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2021 | Tornadoes | 2,845 | 44% | 41 h | 1.2 h | 19k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,684 | 41% | 14 h | 13 h | 17k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Winter storm | 2,608 | 40% | 30 h | 3.2 h | 10k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 706 | 11% | 18 h | 1.2 h | 9.4k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | No storm report | 1,442 | 22% | 8.2 h | 7.8 h | 8.5k |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 756 | 12% | 2.8 d | 4.5 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,440 | 22% | 17 h | 3.8 h | 6.8k |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,049 | 16% | 14 h | 1.5 h | 4.0k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Winter storm | 847 | 13% | 7.2 h | 5.2 h | 2.5k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,060 | 16% | 4.0 h | 1.5 h | 2.2k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 280 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | No storm report | 457 | 7% | 5.2 h | 4.0 h | 1.8k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | No storm report | 1,077 | 17% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 1.8k |
| Dec 4, 2022 | No storm report | 2,062 | 32% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 1.6k |
| May 27, 2018 | No storm report | 603 | 9% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.4k |
| Mar 28, 2020 | No storm report | 2,368 | 36% | 48 min | 12 min | 1.2k |
| Jan 17, 2019 | No storm report | 556 | 9% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 1.1k |
| Dec 9, 2025 | No storm report | 1,172 | 18% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 1.0k |
| Dec 5, 2024 | No storm report | 247 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 902 |
| Feb 17, 2022 | No storm report | 510 | 8% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 839 |
| Jun 7, 2019 | No storm report | 558 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 733 |
| Aug 25, 2018 | No storm report | 556 | 9% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 695 |
| May 21, 2020 | No storm report | 922 | 14% | 48 min | 48 min | 692 |
| Nov 18, 2022 | No storm report | 325 | 5% | 2.2 h | 30 min | 667 |
| Apr 24, 2016 | No storm report | 387 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 632 |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Flooding | 586 | 9% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 586 |
| Sep 9, 2021 | No storm report | 276 | 4% | 2.8 h | – | 585 |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Winter storm | 517 | 8% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 565 |
| Feb 27, 2025 | No storm report | 159 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 548 |
| Sep 27, 2022 | No storm report | 904 | 14% | 48 min | 4.8 h | 516 |
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 Moultrie from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 40%
- No storm on record 29%
- Tornadoes 17%
- Winter storm 14%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Moultrie
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 |
| City of Sullivan | IL | – | – | – | – | 20k |
| Eastern Illinois Elec Coop | Cooperative | 223 | 157 | 2.22 | 17.7 | 11k |
| Shelby Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 21.5 | 9.9k |
| Coles-Moultrie Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 17.6 | 8.5k |
| Village of Bethany | IL | – | – | – | – | 6.0k |
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.
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 6,492 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 →