Power Outages in Mercer County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Mercer County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.5 hours.
Mercer County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Mercer 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 Mercer County right now.
Mercer County has been under 12 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×6
- Flood Advisory ×4
- Flash Flood Warning ×1
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Mercer County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Mercer County went about 3.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 6,309 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 6,309 customers out) · decade average 3.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 274 | 2,240 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 315 | 3,080 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 309 | 742 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 327 | 1,864 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 746 | 932 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 384 | 1,644 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 465 | 964 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 479 | 2,594 | 2.4 |
| 2023 | 419 | 6,309 | 12.2 |
| 2024 | 455 | 2,878 | 7.3 |
| 2025 | 470 | 3,744 | 3.5 |
Relatively Moderate ice storms exposure · 3.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Mercer County: FAQ
- How often does Mercer County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Mercer County, KY logged 470 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Mercer County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 6,309 customers without power, beginning January 12, 2023 and lasting about 1d 2h.
- Is there a power outage in Mercer County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Mercer County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Mercer County.
40310, 40330, 40372
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21167 and /api/v1/counties/21167/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).