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2016 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1416th 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 McCreary 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 22, 2016 10:15 | January 24, 2016 21:30 | 2d 11h | 1,929 | 4,209 |
| 2 | July 8, 2016 19:00 | July 9, 2016 05:30 | 10h 30m | 1,371 | 4,616 |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 18:00 | February 24, 2016 20:45 | 2h 45m | 753 | 2,071 |
| 4 | September 10, 2016 09:00 | September 10, 2016 11:00 | 2h | 748 | 1,391 |
| 5 | May 4, 2016 22:45 | May 5, 2016 07:30 | 8h 45m | 625 | 1,714 |
| 6 | March 31, 2016 09:30 | March 31, 2016 10:45 | 1h 15m | 624 | 626 |
| 7 | May 15, 2016 22:30 | May 15, 2016 23:30 | 1h | 550 | 437 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 21:45 | July 8, 2016 05:30 | 7h 45m | 260 | 253 |
| 9 | March 31, 2016 16:15 | March 31, 2016 20:15 | 4h | 249 | 579 |
| 10 | July 26, 2016 01:15 | July 26, 2016 02:00 | 45m | 249 | 127 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 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 McCreary 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county