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2017 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 408th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Breathitt County, 2017
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 1, 2017 14:30 | March 5, 2017 00:15 | 3d 9h | 2,053 | 43K |
| 2 | January 18, 2017 19:30 | January 18, 2017 20:15 | 45m | 1,894 | 1,420 |
| 3 | August 5, 2017 10:30 | August 5, 2017 15:00 | 4h 30m | 1,878 | 4,343 |
| 4 | June 14, 2017 14:30 | June 15, 2017 09:45 | 19h 15m | 878 | 3,394 |
| 5 | May 24, 2017 11:30 | May 24, 2017 21:45 | 10h 15m | 861 | 8,084 |
| 6 | June 24, 2017 01:30 | June 24, 2017 22:45 | 21h 15m | 774 | 4,968 |
| 7 | May 20, 2017 03:15 | May 21, 2017 20:00 | 1d 16h | 658 | 8,509 |
| 8 | August 8, 2017 09:15 | August 8, 2017 19:30 | 10h 15m | 566 | 2,966 |
| 9 | January 23, 2017 16:45 | January 23, 2017 21:00 | 4h 15m | 564 | 1,694 |
| 10 | May 1, 2017 14:30 | May 2, 2017 20:15 | 1d 5h | 520 | 4,327 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 31 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Breathitt County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.51 | 6.8 hrs | 2.17 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.56 | 2.5 hrs | 1.38 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 3.58 | 6.2 hrs | 2.53 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt County, KY annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/kentucky/breathitt-county