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2017 Whitley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Whitley County, KY went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 8,431 customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2318th 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 Whitley 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 10, 2017 21:15 | August 10, 2017 23:45 | 2h 30m | 1,250 | 2,818 |
| 2 | September 28, 2017 04:45 | September 28, 2017 06:00 | 1h 15m | 1,248 | 1,249 |
| 3 | November 19, 2017 01:15 | November 19, 2017 05:15 | 4h | 389 | 328 |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 18:15 | March 1, 2017 19:45 | 1h 30m | 304 | 201 |
| 5 | December 2, 2017 18:30 | December 2, 2017 22:00 | 3h 30m | 302 | 502 |
| 6 | April 22, 2017 11:00 | April 22, 2017 11:15 | 15m | 189 | 47 |
| 7 | May 28, 2017 01:30 | May 28, 2017 07:00 | 5h 30m | 147 | 716 |
| 8 | July 14, 2017 17:45 | July 15, 2017 02:15 | 8h 30m | 147 | 1,044 |
| 9 | July 23, 2017 23:45 | July 24, 2017 03:30 | 3h 45m | 119 | 199 |
| 10 | April 25, 2017 19:00 | April 25, 2017 20:45 | 1h 45m | 84 | 143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 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 Whitley 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.6 hrs | 1.30 |
| City of Jellico | - | - | - | - | - |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,361 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. Whitley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitley 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/whitley-county