Power Outages in Lee County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Lee County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 25.9 hours.
Lee County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Lee 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 Lee County right now.
Lee County has been under 9 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×5
- Flood Advisory ×2
- Special Weather Statement ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Lee County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Lee County went about 25.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 3,417 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 3,249 customers out) · decade average 18.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 331 | 2,308 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 309 | 3,417 | 11.7 |
| 2017 | 359 | 1,468 | 6.3 |
| 2018 | 388 | 2,273 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 216 | 3,376 | 3.6 |
| 2020 | 215 | 2,494 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 252 | 1,636 | 40.7 |
| 2022 | 343 | 1,007 | 12.6 |
| 2023 | 283 | 3,249 | 51.3 |
| 2024 | 249 | 2,601 | 29.9 |
| 2025 | 321 | 1,626 | 25.9 |
Relatively Low high winds exposure · 18.6 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 Lee County: FAQ
- How often does Lee County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Lee County, KY logged 321 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 25.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Lee County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 3,417 customers without power, beginning January 18, 2016 and lasting about 10h 30m.
- Is there a power outage in Lee County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Lee County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Lee County.
41311, 41397
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21129 and /api/v1/counties/21129/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).