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Kentucky Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 819 customers are currently without power across 32 counties in Kentucky.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Leslie County51.9h/cust
  2. 2Menifee County50.5h/cust
  3. 3Martin County34.5h/cust
  4. 4Union County30.6h/cust
  5. 5Trigg County29.3h/cust
  6. 6Johnson County29.1h/cust
  7. 7Breathitt County27.3h/cust
  8. 8Lee County25.9h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
Kentucky
819
AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 819
Updated July 18, 2026
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Cost of power in Kentucky

▲ 67% since 2010

What Kentuckypays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
15.0¢
per kWh
Commercial
13.1¢
per kWh
Industrial
7.3¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
8.6¢20109.3¢20119.5¢20129.8¢201310.2¢201410.3¢201510.5¢201610.9¢201710.6¢201810.8¢201910.9¢202011.6¢202113.0¢202212.7¢202312.8¢202413.3¢202514.4¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

CovingtonKENTON COUNTY399LouisvilleJEFFERSON COUNTY119Lexington-FayetteFAYETTE COUNTY14Bowling GreenWARREN COUNTY2

A decade of outages in Kentucky

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

2.3h20152.0h20162.6h20175.7h20183.3h20194.7h202010.4h20215.6h202214.9h20239.8h20247.0h2025

Kentucky's worst year on record was 2023 (peak 82,578 customers out) · decade average 6.2 hrs per customer/yr.

See how Kentucky ranks against every state →

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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  • March 3, 2023 · Severe Weather346,000
  • January 29, 2023 · System Operations0

Electric providers in Kentucky

All Kentucky counties