County annual report · FIPS 21225
2016 Union County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Union County, KY went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 827th 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 Union 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 22, 2016 20:45 | March 22, 2016 22:45 | 2h | 1,931 | 1,006 |
| 2 | December 19, 2016 23:00 | December 20, 2016 01:00 | 2h | 1,925 | 2,777 |
| 3 | July 6, 2016 20:00 | July 9, 2016 20:15 | 3d | 1,256 | 11K |
| 4 | May 27, 2016 20:45 | May 27, 2016 22:45 | 2h | 1,028 | 2,056 |
| 5 | July 27, 2016 23:00 | July 28, 2016 05:30 | 6h 30m | 975 | 796 |
| 6 | February 19, 2016 15:30 | February 19, 2016 22:30 | 7h | 769 | 1,539 |
| 7 | June 3, 2016 04:30 | June 3, 2016 05:15 | 45m | 759 | 380 |
| 8 | May 11, 2016 23:30 | May 12, 2016 08:45 | 9h 15m | 439 | 1,075 |
| 9 | December 6, 2016 21:15 | December 6, 2016 22:45 | 1h 30m | 403 | 238 |
| 10 | July 12, 2016 14:45 | July 12, 2016 15:45 | 1h | 306 | 235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 20 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Union 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 |
| Kenergy Corp | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.73 | 84 min | 1.15 |
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 ÷ 6,794 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county