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Who serves Effingham County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren, Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗, Southwestern Electric Cooperative and Shelby Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Clay Electric Cooperative and City of Altamont also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Effingham County, IL
Last significant outage: Aug 16, 2026 — peaked at 3,744 customers, restored in ~1 hr (heat event).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Effingham County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
134 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~4,910 customers out in June 2015, restored after about 1.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Effingham County
Communities in Effingham County include Altamont, Teutopolis, Dieterich, Watson, Beecher City, Edgewood, Mason and Montrose. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
