Power Outages in Harlan County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Harlan County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 13.0 hours.
Harlan County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Harlan 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 Harlan County right now.
Harlan County has been under 7 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×5
- Special Weather Statement ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Harlan County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Harlan County went about 13.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 5,681 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 5,286 customers out) · decade average 7.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 503 | 2,565 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | 515 | 3,460 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 517 | 1,975 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 579 | 2,723 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 633 | 1,521 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 647 | 1,236 | 4.8 |
| 2021 | 520 | 1,991 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 564 | 2,254 | 7.1 |
| 2023 | 527 | 2,434 | 6.3 |
| 2024 | 594 | 5,286 | 20.1 |
| 2025 | 582 | 5,681 | 13.0 |
Relatively High high winds exposure · 7.2 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 Harlan County: FAQ
- How often does Harlan County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Harlan County, KY logged 582 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 13.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Harlan County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 5,681 customers without power, beginning May 17, 2025 and lasting about 3d 12h.
- Is there a power outage in Harlan County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Harlan County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Harlan County.
40801, 40806, 40807, 40810, 40815, 40818, 40819, 40820, 40823, 40824, 40828, 40829, 40830, 40831, 40843, 40847, 40849, 40854, 40855, 40863, 40865, 40870, 40873, 40927, 40964
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21095 and /api/v1/counties/21095/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).