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2016 Mercer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mercer County, KY went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1558th 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 Mercer 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 | June 25, 2016 11:30 | June 25, 2016 16:30 | 5h | 3,080 | 7,259 |
| 2 | August 16, 2016 14:30 | August 16, 2016 20:00 | 5h 30m | 640 | 2,667 |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 03:00 | July 14, 2016 06:00 | 3h | 639 | 163 |
| 4 | September 10, 2016 21:30 | September 11, 2016 04:45 | 7h 15m | 564 | 570 |
| 5 | February 29, 2016 06:00 | February 29, 2016 07:00 | 1h | 531 | 399 |
| 6 | October 14, 2016 06:00 | October 14, 2016 09:00 | 3h | 353 | 762 |
| 7 | May 1, 2016 20:15 | May 2, 2016 02:30 | 6h 15m | 316 | 852 |
| 8 | April 18, 2016 00:45 | April 18, 2016 02:30 | 1h 45m | 304 | 528 |
| 9 | February 19, 2016 17:00 | February 19, 2016 21:45 | 4h 45m | 185 | 127 |
| 10 | June 22, 2016 11:45 | June 22, 2016 12:45 | 1h | 105 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 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 Mercer 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.98 | 88 min | 1.11 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2016 | 64 min | 0.99 | 64 min | 0.99 |
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 ÷ 11,645 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county