When will the power be back in Jackson County, IL?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Jackson County, IL right now.
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Elsewhere in Illinois: 132 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:31 PM CDT.
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Who serves Jackson County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren, Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗ and Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Jackson County, IL
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 983 customers, restored in ~48 min (no severe weather).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Jackson County, IL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
261 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~6,017 customers out in January 2025, restored after about 46.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Jackson County
Communities in Jackson County include Carbondale, Murphysboro, De Soto, Elkville, Ava, Makanda, Grand Tower and Dowell. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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