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2016 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 553rd 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 Harlan 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 17, 2016 00:15 | June 17, 2016 06:45 | 6h 30m | 3,460 | 7,262 |
| 2 | April 9, 2016 03:00 | April 9, 2016 06:15 | 3h 15m | 2,643 | 2,277 |
| 3 | June 24, 2016 01:00 | June 24, 2016 21:15 | 20h 15m | 1,951 | 10K |
| 4 | January 18, 2016 08:30 | January 18, 2016 16:30 | 8h | 1,548 | 5,196 |
| 5 | October 31, 2016 17:00 | October 31, 2016 20:30 | 3h 30m | 1,324 | 1,666 |
| 6 | July 12, 2016 18:45 | July 13, 2016 08:30 | 13h 45m | 1,184 | 4,169 |
| 7 | May 8, 2016 00:15 | May 9, 2016 11:15 | 1d 11h | 1,050 | 6,017 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 19:15 | July 7, 2016 23:30 | 4h 15m | 989 | 941 |
| 9 | May 29, 2016 17:00 | May 29, 2016 21:00 | 4h | 934 | 1,843 |
| 10 | April 1, 2016 13:00 | April 1, 2016 15:45 | 2h 45m | 639 | 960 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 46 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 Utilities Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 | 2.0 hrs | 1.13 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2016 | 5.3 hrs | 3.80 | 4.6 hrs | 3.60 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/harlan-county