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Who serves White County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Illinois Electric Cooperatives ↗ and Ameren, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Carmi 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 — White County, IL
Last significant outage: Sep 18, 2026 — peaked at 1,364 customers, restored in ~4 hr (heat event).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — White County, IL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
56 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 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: ~2,189 customers out in May 2022, restored after about 4.8 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 White County include Carmi, Grayville, Norris City, Enfield, Crossville, Mill Shoals, Springerton and Maunie. 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 White County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of White include Illinois Electric Cooperatives, Ameren and City of Carmi — 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.
