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

Power outage history

Wabash County Illinois

0.4hours

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

101st most of 101 in Illinois 94% below the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 19, 2015 5% of customers out · 90% back in 1.0 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 0.4h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 16hours May 19, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 51% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 43 min without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,760 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Wabash'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 43 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wabash, hours without power per customer

WabashUS median countyIllinois average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 0.1 ’19 0.2 ’20 ’21 0.7 ’22 0.4 ’23 0.3 ’24 0.6 ’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
Jul 1, 2023 Thunderstorms 237 2% 14 h – 2.0k
Aug 1, 2022 Thunderstorms 159 2% 13 h – 2.0k
May 19, 2022 Tornadoes 132 1% 16 h – 1.8k
Jan 22, 2025 Winter storm 196 2% 7.2 h – 1.4k
Jul 25, 2021 No storm report 289 3% 6.5 h – 1.1k
Aug 29, 2024 No storm report 335 3% 3.5 h – 1.1k
Jun 9, 2020 No storm report 233 2% 4.2 h – 979
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 139 1% 7.5 h – 943
Dec 25, 2022 No storm report 333 3% 3.2 h – 860
May 11, 2016 Thunderstorms 295 3% 3.0 h – 818
Jun 26, 2016 No storm report 296 3% 3.8 h – 799
Aug 19, 2015 No storm report 515 5% 1.0 h 1.0 h 515

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

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Thunderstorms 27%
  • Tornadoes 9.6%
  • Winter storm 9.0%
  • Flooding 3.1%
  • Windstorm 1.1%
  • Heat 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wabash

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
Norris Electric Coop Cooperative – – – 15.1 18k
Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop Cooperative – – – 16.4 12k
Mt Carmel Public Utility Co Investor Owned 86 82 2.94 19.7 4.3k
City of Allendale IL – – – – 2.9k

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 9,760 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 →