County annual report · FIPS 21207
2016 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Russell 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 52nd worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1556th 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 Russell 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 | November 24, 2016 09:00 | November 24, 2016 10:15 | 1h 15m | 1,482 | 1,530 |
| 2 | July 4, 2016 15:15 | July 5, 2016 01:15 | 10h | 931 | 810 |
| 3 | January 23, 2016 03:45 | January 24, 2016 00:45 | 21h | 697 | 6,707 |
| 4 | November 30, 2016 16:00 | November 30, 2016 18:30 | 2h 30m | 573 | 1,147 |
| 5 | August 15, 2016 20:15 | August 15, 2016 23:30 | 3h 15m | 572 | 1,859 |
| 6 | December 5, 2016 04:45 | December 5, 2016 06:15 | 1h 30m | 572 | 287 |
| 7 | June 19, 2016 16:45 | June 19, 2016 19:15 | 2h 30m | 484 | 254 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 21:30 | February 24, 2016 23:45 | 2h 15m | 445 | 891 |
| 9 | March 21, 2016 01:30 | March 21, 2016 05:15 | 3h 45m | 351 | 610 |
| 10 | July 7, 2016 06:30 | July 7, 2016 08:00 | 1h 30m | 327 | 491 |
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 Russell 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 |
| Taylor County Rural E C C | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.28 | 72 min | 0.89 |
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 ÷ 11,596 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county