Power Outages in Clay County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Clay County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 12.7 hours.
Clay County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Clay 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 Clay County right now.
Clay County has been under 8 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×5
- Flood Advisory ×2
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Clay County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Clay County went about 12.7 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,969 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 4,969 customers out) · decade average 9.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | 1,089 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 140 | 2,166 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 138 | 573 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 172 | 1,074 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 521 | 439 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 257 | 1,164 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 454 | 4,969 | 37.1 |
| 2022 | 555 | 1,566 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 518 | 4,118 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 499 | 3,834 | 14.4 |
| 2025 | 502 | 2,322 | 12.7 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 9.1 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 Clay County: FAQ
- How often does Clay County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Clay County, KY logged 502 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 12.7 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Clay County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,969 customers without power, beginning February 15, 2021 and lasting about 10d 3h.
- Is there a power outage in Clay County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Clay County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Clay County.
40914, 40941, 40962, 40972
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21051 and /api/v1/counties/21051/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).