Power Outages in Breathitt County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Breathitt County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 27.3 hours.
Breathitt County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Breathitt County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Breathitt County right now.
Breathitt County has been under 14 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Flood Advisory ×5
- Flood Watch ×5
- Special Weather Statement ×4
Hardest-hit cities in Breathitt County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Breathitt County went about 27.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 3,078 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 3,078 customers out) · decade average 18.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 218 | 1,573 | 19.8 |
| 2016 | 227 | 2,840 | 15.5 |
| 2017 | 233 | 2,053 | 13.3 |
| 2018 | 310 | 1,001 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 332 | 921 | 10.1 |
| 2020 | 327 | 1,950 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 314 | 1,867 | 16.7 |
| 2022 | 452 | 3,078 | 52.1 |
| 2023 | 452 | 2,804 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 477 | 1,786 | 13.6 |
| 2025 | 477 | 2,662 | 27.3 |
Relatively Low high winds exposure · 18.9 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Breathitt County: FAQ
- How often does Breathitt County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Breathitt County, KY logged 477 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 27.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Breathitt County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 3,078 customers without power, beginning July 27, 2022 and lasting about 15d 13h.
- Is there a power outage in Breathitt County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Breathitt County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Breathitt County.
41310, 41317, 41339, 41348, 41366, 41385, 41390
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21025 and /api/v1/counties/21025/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).