When will the power be back in St. Clair County, IL?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Illinois
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customers reported out in St. Clair County, IL
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~7 hr start to finish (5 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 10:30 PM CDT.
25county-wide trend of customers without power · last 2.1 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
⚡ No power in St. Clair, IL? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren, Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association, Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗ and 1 more, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Village of Freeburg and City of Mascoutah also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — St. Clair County, IL
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,953 customers, restored in ~9.2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 17 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — St. Clair County, IL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
791 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 6 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: ~40,861 customers out in July 2016, restored after about 2.3 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.
Communities in St. Clair County include Belleville, O'Fallon, East St. Louis, Cahokia Heights, Fairview Heights, Shiloh, Swansea and Mascoutah. 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 St. Clair County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of St. Clair include Ameren, Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association and others — 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.
