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2017 Martin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Martin County, KY went without power for an average of 18.8 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 291st 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 Martin 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 5, 2017 04:00 | May 5, 2017 06:15 | 2h 15m | 2,645 | 3,798 |
| 2 | September 22, 2017 02:15 | September 22, 2017 20:00 | 17h 45m | 2,073 | 6,745 |
| 3 | March 1, 2017 15:00 | March 4, 2017 22:15 | 3d 7h | 1,806 | 54K |
| 4 | May 25, 2017 17:45 | May 26, 2017 04:00 | 10h 15m | 1,476 | 5,724 |
| 5 | May 19, 2017 10:45 | May 19, 2017 21:15 | 10h 30m | 973 | 3,987 |
| 6 | May 5, 2017 07:15 | May 5, 2017 15:30 | 8h 15m | 936 | 3,355 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 15:45 | May 2, 2017 21:00 | 1d 5h | 861 | 11K |
| 8 | December 27, 2017 22:45 | December 28, 2017 10:45 | 12h | 697 | 2,278 |
| 9 | November 19, 2017 04:15 | November 19, 2017 22:30 | 18h 15m | 536 | 584 |
| 10 | May 7, 2017 00:45 | May 7, 2017 03:00 | 2h 15m | 530 | 634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 30 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 Martin 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 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 3.58 | 6.2 hrs | 2.53 |
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 ÷ 6,097 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county