When will the power be back in Union County, IL?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Union County, IL right now.
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Elsewhere in Illinois: 132 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:31 PM CDT.
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Who serves Union County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Ameren, Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗ 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 — Union County, IL
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 601 customers, restored in ~4.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 28, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Union County, IL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
98 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: ~4,813 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 2.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Union County include Anna, Jonesboro, Cobden, Dongola, Alto Pass and Mill Creek. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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