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2016 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1711th 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 Laurel 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 | May 7, 2016 23:30 | May 8, 2016 19:30 | 20h | 2,907 | 6,853 |
| 2 | December 2, 2016 22:30 | December 3, 2016 01:15 | 2h 45m | 1,963 | 3,438 |
| 3 | July 25, 2016 23:15 | July 26, 2016 06:30 | 7h 15m | 1,190 | 4,988 |
| 4 | September 1, 2016 03:45 | September 1, 2016 04:15 | 30m | 1,184 | 592 |
| 5 | December 24, 2016 14:00 | December 24, 2016 21:00 | 7h | 1,184 | 5,313 |
| 6 | September 24, 2016 23:45 | September 25, 2016 01:45 | 2h | 1,033 | 677 |
| 7 | May 17, 2016 13:00 | May 17, 2016 14:00 | 1h | 847 | 472 |
| 8 | July 2, 2016 15:00 | July 2, 2016 16:15 | 1h 15m | 750 | 938 |
| 9 | February 19, 2016 17:45 | February 19, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 740 | 925 |
| 10 | July 9, 2016 22:30 | July 10, 2016 02:15 | 3h 45m | 652 | 815 |
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 Laurel 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.16 | 3.9 hrs | 2.08 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2016 | 8.5 hrs | 2.43 | 3.5 hrs | 1.83 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel 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/laurel-county