Power Outages in Metcalfe County, KY
No live outage feed is available for Metcalfe County, KY yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 7.5 hours.
Metcalfe County, KY is served by local tracked utilities.
Metcalfe 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 Metcalfe County right now.
Metcalfe County has been under 11 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×6
- Flood Advisory ×5
Hardest-hit cities in Metcalfe County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Metcalfe County went about 7.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,026 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 4,026 customers out) · decade average 8.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | 1,531 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 103 | 1,534 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 63 | 1,484 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 62 | 1,416 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 320 | 1,894 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 245 | 2,777 | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 217 | 2,779 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 253 | 2,259 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 257 | 4,026 | 39.4 |
| 2024 | 255 | 2,240 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 263 | 2,278 | 7.5 |
Relatively Low ice storms exposure · 8.1 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 Metcalfe County: FAQ
- How often does Metcalfe County, KY lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Metcalfe County, KY logged 263 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 7.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Metcalfe County, KY?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,026 customers without power, beginning March 3, 2023 and lasting about 6d 22h.
- Is there a power outage in Metcalfe County, KY right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Metcalfe County, KY. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Metcalfe County.
42124, 42129, 42154, 42166, 42214
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/21169 and /api/v1/counties/21169/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Kentucky customers).