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Who serves Perry County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren and Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association, 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 — Perry County, IL
Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 314 customers, restored in ~1.8 hr (heat event).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 12, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Perry County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
144 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
Largest on record: ~6,266 customers out in July 2023, restored after about 43 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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 Perry County include Du Quoin, Pinckneyville, Willisville, Tamaroa, Cutler and St. Johns. 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 Perry County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Perry include Ameren and Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association — 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.
