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2017 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1309th 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 Harlan 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 | May 1, 2017 13:45 | May 2, 2017 07:00 | 17h 15m | 1,975 | 10K |
| 2 | April 23, 2017 22:45 | April 24, 2017 01:45 | 3h | 1,057 | 2,890 |
| 3 | August 17, 2017 05:15 | August 17, 2017 07:00 | 1h 45m | 1,013 | 1,773 |
| 4 | April 10, 2017 14:15 | April 10, 2017 16:00 | 1h 45m | 937 | 237 |
| 5 | November 3, 2017 18:45 | November 3, 2017 21:00 | 2h 15m | 796 | 767 |
| 6 | July 3, 2017 19:15 | July 3, 2017 21:00 | 1h 45m | 590 | 444 |
| 7 | June 23, 2017 08:45 | June 23, 2017 13:15 | 4h 30m | 547 | 906 |
| 8 | September 12, 2017 05:00 | September 12, 2017 17:00 | 12h | 433 | 2,576 |
| 9 | May 17, 2017 13:45 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 3h 45m | 432 | 453 |
| 10 | October 24, 2017 13:30 | October 24, 2017 14:30 | 1h | 384 | 290 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 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 Harlan 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 Utilities Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 | 80 min | 0.83 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 2.44 | 3.0 hrs | 2.29 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.6 hrs | 1.30 |
| City of Benham | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,700 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. Harlan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harlan 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/harlan-county