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2017 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2364th 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 Laurel 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 | August 8, 2017 14:15 | August 8, 2017 15:45 | 1h 30m | 1,790 | 450 |
| 2 | August 7, 2017 09:30 | August 7, 2017 11:00 | 1h 30m | 1,073 | 1,610 |
| 3 | July 3, 2017 18:00 | July 3, 2017 23:30 | 5h 30m | 989 | 885 |
| 4 | June 27, 2017 13:15 | June 27, 2017 15:15 | 2h | 928 | 470 |
| 5 | May 28, 2017 02:15 | May 28, 2017 08:45 | 6h 30m | 869 | 1,500 |
| 6 | July 6, 2017 22:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 30m | 813 | 325 |
| 7 | February 4, 2017 10:45 | February 4, 2017 15:30 | 4h 45m | 362 | 820 |
| 8 | December 17, 2017 02:45 | December 17, 2017 06:30 | 3h 45m | 345 | 462 |
| 9 | September 15, 2017 14:30 | September 15, 2017 16:30 | 2h | 267 | 276 |
| 10 | August 17, 2017 16:45 | August 18, 2017 03:45 | 11h | 261 | 345 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 20 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Laurel 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.56 | 2.5 hrs | 1.38 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.18 | 2.8 hrs | 1.06 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.6 hrs | 1.30 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel 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/laurel-county