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Who serves McDonough County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren and Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Bushnell 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 — McDonough County, IL
Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 392 customers, restored in ~2.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 13, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — McDonough County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
91 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the Illinois norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~4,645 customers out in June 2023, restored after about 4.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
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 McDonough County
Communities in McDonough County include Macomb, Bushnell, Colchester, Blandinsville, Prairie City, Industry, Good Hope and Bardolph. 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 McDonough County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of McDonough include Ameren, Illinois Electric Cooperatives and City of Bushnell — 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.
