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2016 Knox County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Knox County, KY went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1765th 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 Knox 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 | July 2, 2016 15:00 | July 2, 2016 18:00 | 3h | 2,295 | 2,873 |
| 2 | August 5, 2016 02:15 | August 5, 2016 11:00 | 8h 45m | 828 | 2,045 |
| 3 | January 22, 2016 17:15 | January 23, 2016 15:45 | 22h 30m | 459 | 3,280 |
| 4 | April 7, 2016 01:30 | April 7, 2016 04:00 | 2h 30m | 423 | 954 |
| 5 | January 28, 2016 02:00 | January 28, 2016 04:15 | 2h 15m | 422 | 459 |
| 6 | March 24, 2016 18:15 | March 24, 2016 20:00 | 1h 45m | 422 | 313 |
| 7 | September 14, 2016 16:30 | September 14, 2016 16:45 | 15m | 394 | 99 |
| 8 | January 25, 2016 12:30 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 5h 45m | 307 | 698 |
| 9 | June 8, 2016 14:30 | June 8, 2016 21:15 | 6h 45m | 214 | 233 |
| 10 | January 10, 2016 11:30 | January 10, 2016 14:30 | 3h | 213 | 639 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Knox 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barbourville Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,272 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county