See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Illinois
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Who serves Marion County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren, Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗ and Southwestern Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Clay Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Marion County, IL
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 612 customers, restored in ~3.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Marion County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
213 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~8,582 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 5.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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 Marion County
Communities in Marion County include Centralia, Salem, Sandoval, Central City, Odin, Kinmundy, Junction City and Patoka. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
