When will the power be back in Lake County, IL?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Illinois
No significant county-wide outage reported in Lake 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 Lake County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include ComEd, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Lake County, IL
⚡ Power here was restored about 32 hours ago — the outage peaked at 407 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 407 customers, restored in ~4.3 hr (weather alert).
Across the 38 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lake County, IL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,435 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 12 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~3.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Illinois norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~42,379 customers out in August 2021, restored after about 2.1 days. 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 Lake County
Antioch · Beach Park · Buffalo Grove · Deerfield · Fox Lake · Grayslake · Gurnee · Highland Park · Lake Forest · Lake Zurich · Libertyville · Lindenhurst · Mundelein · North Chicago · Round Lake · Round Lake Beach · Vernon Hills · Wauconda · Waukegan · Zion
Communities in Lake County include Waukegan, Buffalo Grove, Mundelein, Highland Park, North Chicago, Gurnee, Round Lake Beach and Vernon Hills. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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