County annual report · FIPS 21025
2016 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 15.5 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 202nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Breathitt County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 23, 2016 23:15 | June 26, 2016 20:30 | 2d 21h | 2,840 | 21K |
| 2 | September 24, 2016 12:15 | September 24, 2016 20:00 | 7h 45m | 2,792 | 18K |
| 3 | September 27, 2016 21:15 | September 28, 2016 03:15 | 6h | 1,902 | 11K |
| 4 | September 28, 2016 15:45 | September 30, 2016 11:45 | 1d 20h | 1,897 | 12K |
| 5 | November 28, 2016 18:00 | November 28, 2016 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1,892 | 2,433 |
| 6 | October 27, 2016 15:00 | October 27, 2016 19:00 | 4h | 1,890 | 4,747 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 03:45 | July 28, 2016 21:00 | 17h 15m | 868 | 2,122 |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 16:30 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 17h 30m | 787 | 5,108 |
| 9 | May 1, 2016 03:45 | May 2, 2016 06:00 | 1d 2h | 623 | 6,750 |
| 10 | February 3, 2016 14:15 | February 3, 2016 18:45 | 4h 30m | 575 | 190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 31 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 9.3 hrs | 2.32 | 7.4 hrs | 2.17 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.16 | 3.9 hrs | 2.08 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2016 | 7.1 hrs | 2.80 | 5.4 hrs | 2.40 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/kentucky/breathitt-county