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2016 Knott County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Knott County, KY went without power for an average of 16.3 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 190th 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 Knott 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 23:30 | June 27, 2016 15:30 | 3d 16h | 1,921 | 31K |
| 2 | November 29, 2016 18:15 | November 30, 2016 09:15 | 15h | 1,861 | 7,727 |
| 3 | August 3, 2016 11:45 | August 4, 2016 19:15 | 1d 7h | 1,807 | 15K |
| 4 | March 23, 2016 17:30 | March 23, 2016 21:00 | 3h 30m | 1,674 | 2,937 |
| 5 | December 18, 2016 05:15 | December 19, 2016 21:00 | 1d 15h | 1,276 | 9,615 |
| 6 | December 28, 2016 02:15 | December 28, 2016 18:15 | 16h | 903 | 2,749 |
| 7 | March 31, 2016 13:30 | April 1, 2016 19:15 | 1d 5h | 664 | 1,823 |
| 8 | July 4, 2016 22:30 | July 6, 2016 05:15 | 1d 6h | 646 | 4,804 |
| 9 | July 14, 2016 14:45 | July 15, 2016 03:15 | 12h 30m | 645 | 1,252 |
| 10 | March 1, 2016 22:15 | March 2, 2016 10:45 | 12h 30m | 526 | 2,418 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 41 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Knott 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 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2016 | 7.1 hrs | 2.80 | 5.4 hrs | 2.40 |
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 ÷ 7,061 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. Knott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knott 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/knott-county