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2015 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.3 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 113 Kentucky counties and 814th 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 Harlan 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 | April 22, 2015 18:45 | April 22, 2015 19:45 | 1h | 2,565 | 644 |
| 2 | August 25, 2015 19:15 | August 25, 2015 23:15 | 4h | 1,338 | 1,621 |
| 3 | April 20, 2015 02:15 | April 20, 2015 15:15 | 13h | 1,241 | 1,850 |
| 4 | April 8, 2015 13:30 | April 8, 2015 18:00 | 4h 30m | 1,221 | 1,755 |
| 5 | January 9, 2015 16:30 | January 9, 2015 19:45 | 3h 15m | 1,117 | 2,235 |
| 6 | July 13, 2015 21:30 | July 14, 2015 08:00 | 10h 30m | 1,032 | 3,118 |
| 7 | June 11, 2015 19:00 | June 12, 2015 04:15 | 9h 15m | 909 | 703 |
| 8 | February 21, 2015 14:15 | February 22, 2015 06:30 | 16h 15m | 834 | 4,123 |
| 9 | February 20, 2015 05:30 | February 20, 2015 23:45 | 18h 15m | 751 | 2,996 |
| 10 | November 18, 2015 22:00 | November 19, 2015 04:45 | 6h 45m | 634 | 1,617 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 42 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 Harlan 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 Utilities Co | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2015 | 4.4 hrs | 3.25 | 4.0 hrs | 2.90 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 |
| City of Benham | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,700 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. Harlan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harlan 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/harlan-county