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2016 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 513th 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 Letcher 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 | March 23, 2016 00:15 | March 23, 2016 23:00 | 22h 45m | 1,459 | 6,637 |
| 2 | December 11, 2016 18:30 | December 11, 2016 20:00 | 1h 30m | 1,018 | 262 |
| 3 | March 25, 2016 12:45 | March 25, 2016 22:00 | 9h 15m | 717 | 1,754 |
| 4 | November 9, 2016 14:30 | November 9, 2016 20:30 | 6h | 655 | 1,073 |
| 5 | January 5, 2016 11:00 | January 5, 2016 16:00 | 5h | 573 | 1,727 |
| 6 | July 14, 2016 22:00 | July 17, 2016 04:30 | 2d 6h | 532 | 5,686 |
| 7 | April 2, 2016 23:00 | April 3, 2016 07:45 | 8h 45m | 529 | 2,328 |
| 8 | December 12, 2016 03:15 | December 12, 2016 17:15 | 14h | 483 | 3,177 |
| 9 | March 1, 2016 22:00 | March 2, 2016 19:15 | 21h 15m | 468 | 2,927 |
| 10 | January 19, 2016 01:45 | January 19, 2016 07:15 | 5h 30m | 428 | 2,017 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 58 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county