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Who serves Kane County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include ComEd, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of St. Charles, City of Batavia and City of Geneva 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 — Kane County, IL
Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 429 customers, restored in ~4.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 21 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Kane County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
977 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
9 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~23,054 customers out in August 2021, restored after about 45.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
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 Kane County
Communities in Kane County include Aurora, Elgin, Carpentersville, St. Charles, Batavia, South Elgin, Montgomery and North Aurora. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Kane County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Kane include ComEd, City of St. Charles, City of Batavia and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
