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2015 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.3 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 113 Kentucky counties and 218th 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 Letcher 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 19:15 | July 18, 2015 01:30 | 4d 6h | 3,259 | 64K |
| 2 | April 20, 2015 02:45 | April 20, 2015 22:30 | 19h 45m | 1,851 | 11K |
| 3 | December 27, 2015 15:00 | December 28, 2015 16:30 | 1d 1h | 1,794 | 3,286 |
| 4 | June 20, 2015 06:30 | June 20, 2015 12:15 | 5h 45m | 1,451 | 5,896 |
| 5 | January 2, 2015 11:30 | January 2, 2015 11:45 | 15m | 909 | 227 |
| 6 | July 20, 2015 18:00 | July 21, 2015 23:15 | 1d 5h | 753 | 8,752 |
| 7 | July 10, 2015 00:15 | July 10, 2015 13:30 | 13h 15m | 705 | 2,541 |
| 8 | September 5, 2015 20:15 | September 8, 2015 23:00 | 3d 2h | 623 | 683 |
| 9 | July 22, 2015 01:15 | July 24, 2015 01:45 | 2d | 525 | 1,920 |
| 10 | May 19, 2015 03:00 | May 19, 2015 07:45 | 4h 45m | 444 | 1,282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 42 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county