Power Outages in Franklin County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Franklin County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 4.8 hours.
Franklin County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Franklin 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 Franklin County right now.
Franklin County has been under 8 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×6
- Flood Advisory ×1
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Franklin County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Franklin County went about 4.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,545 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 4,545 customers out) · decade average 3.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 231 | 773 | 0.7 |
| 2016 | 302 | 1,573 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 315 | 1,673 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 329 | 4,052 | 4.5 |
| 2019 | 733 | 1,744 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 320 | 1,668 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 376 | 1,682 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 412 | 2,959 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 448 | 4,545 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 663 | 3,186 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 780 | 3,193 | 4.8 |
Relatively High high winds exposure · 3.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Franklin County: FAQ
- How often does Franklin County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Franklin County, KY logged 780 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 4.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Franklin County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,545 customers without power, beginning March 3, 2023 and lasting about 6d 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Franklin County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Franklin County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Franklin County.
40601
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21073 and /api/v1/counties/21073/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).