Power Outages in Carter County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Carter County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.3 hours.
Carter County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Carter 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 Carter County right now.
Carter County has been under 8 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 16, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×6
- Special Weather Statement ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Carter County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Carter County went about 5.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 11,506 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 11,506 customers out) · decade average 23.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 298 | 5,868 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 281 | 2,557 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 333 | 956 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 498 | 2,507 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 589 | 2,136 | 4.8 |
| 2020 | 634 | 1,414 | 9.0 |
| 2021 | 611 | 11,506 | 152.8 |
| 2022 | 670 | 3,243 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 580 | 3,569 | 9.8 |
| 2024 | 599 | 5,888 | 33.1 |
| 2025 | 604 | 1,405 | 5.3 |
Relatively Low ice storms exposure · 23.1 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Carter County: FAQ
- How often does Carter County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Carter County, KY logged 604 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Carter County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 11,506 customers without power, beginning February 10, 2021 and lasting about 21d 2h.
- Is there a power outage in Carter County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Carter County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Carter County.
41132, 41142, 41143, 41146, 41164, 41181
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21043 and /api/v1/counties/21043/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).