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2016 Lee County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lee County, KY went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 292nd 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 Lee 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 | January 18, 2016 08:15 | January 18, 2016 18:45 | 10h 30m | 3,417 | 17K |
| 2 | March 15, 2016 04:30 | March 15, 2016 05:15 | 45m | 1,398 | 1,049 |
| 3 | March 2, 2016 00:45 | March 2, 2016 01:30 | 45m | 1,098 | 824 |
| 4 | May 8, 2016 00:30 | May 8, 2016 15:00 | 14h 30m | 813 | 5,378 |
| 5 | May 13, 2016 19:45 | May 13, 2016 20:30 | 45m | 794 | 236 |
| 6 | May 28, 2016 11:30 | May 28, 2016 12:45 | 1h 15m | 773 | 407 |
| 7 | July 8, 2016 21:30 | July 9, 2016 21:30 | 1d | 704 | 2,790 |
| 8 | November 4, 2016 04:15 | November 4, 2016 10:00 | 5h 45m | 704 | 1,665 |
| 9 | June 5, 2016 08:30 | June 5, 2016 12:45 | 4h 15m | 679 | 1,182 |
| 10 | December 18, 2016 11:15 | December 19, 2016 03:00 | 15h 45m | 679 | 3,631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lee 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 |
| 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 ÷ 3,961 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county