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2015 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 19.8 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 113 Kentucky counties and 121st of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Breathitt County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 13, 2015 20:45 | July 18, 2015 00:30 | 4d 3h | 1,573 | 95K |
| 2 | July 9, 2015 15:45 | July 10, 2015 23:45 | 1d 8h | 1,405 | 9,158 |
| 3 | June 26, 2015 00:45 | June 27, 2015 19:00 | 1d 18h | 1,125 | 12K |
| 4 | June 8, 2015 18:15 | June 9, 2015 23:00 | 1d 4h | 1,024 | 4,458 |
| 5 | August 13, 2015 20:00 | August 13, 2015 23:15 | 3h 15m | 1,006 | 1,516 |
| 6 | November 12, 2015 18:30 | November 12, 2015 21:15 | 2h 45m | 1,003 | 1,616 |
| 7 | May 11, 2015 19:45 | May 11, 2015 20:30 | 45m | 983 | 493 |
| 8 | April 16, 2015 13:15 | April 16, 2015 20:30 | 7h 15m | 925 | 3,681 |
| 9 | February 23, 2015 07:30 | February 24, 2015 01:00 | 17h 30m | 883 | 1,800 |
| 10 | February 5, 2015 08:45 | February 5, 2015 10:45 | 2h | 882 | 1,762 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 28 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Breathitt County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Power Co | 2015 | 18.2 hrs | 2.88 | 7.8 hrs | 2.47 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 2.28 | 3.3 hrs | 1.94 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2015 | 25.7 hrs | 3.88 | 4.7 hrs | 2.58 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Kentucky's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,915 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt County, KY annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/kentucky/breathitt-county