Power Outages in Letcher County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Letcher County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 20.0 hours.
Letcher County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Letcher 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 Letcher County right now.
Letcher 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 Letcher County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Letcher County went about 20.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 8,417 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 8,417 customers out) · decade average 22.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 354 | 3,259 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 334 | 1,459 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 387 | 1,576 | 8.8 |
| 2018 | 519 | 3,617 | 16.0 |
| 2019 | 594 | 1,445 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 579 | 7,888 | 60.6 |
| 2021 | 533 | 1,609 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 554 | 8,417 | 63.7 |
| 2023 | 555 | 2,787 | 14.7 |
| 2024 | 569 | 5,066 | 25.5 |
| 2025 | 548 | 3,258 | 20.0 |
Relatively Moderate winter weather exposure · 22.7 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 Letcher County: FAQ
- How often does Letcher County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Letcher County, KY logged 548 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 20.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Letcher County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 8,417 customers without power, beginning July 28, 2022 and lasting about 8d 21h.
- Is there a power outage in Letcher County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Letcher County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Letcher County.
40826, 40862, 41517, 41537, 41804, 41810, 41812, 41815, 41819, 41821, 41824, 41825, 41826, 41832, 41833, 41835, 41837, 41838, 41840, 41845, 41848, 41849, 41855, 41858
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21133 and /api/v1/counties/21133/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).