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Who serves Mercer County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren and MidAmerican Energy, 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 — Mercer County, IL
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 575 customers, restored in ~3.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 8 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 1, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Mercer County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
219 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~6,907 customers out in February 2019, restored after about 24.5 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.
Communities covered
Communities in Mercer County include Aledo, Viola, Matherville, Sherrard, Windsor, New Boston, Keithsburg and Joy. 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 Mercer County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Mercer include Ameren and MidAmerican Energy — 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.
