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2018 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 885th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harlan County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 4, 2018 05:30 | April 5, 2018 17:45 | 1d 12h | 2,723 | 27K |
| 2 | July 22, 2018 15:30 | July 23, 2018 18:15 | 1d 2h | 1,996 | 13K |
| 3 | November 15, 2018 00:15 | November 16, 2018 11:30 | 1d 11h | 1,570 | 7,218 |
| 4 | March 15, 2018 03:00 | March 15, 2018 21:00 | 18h | 1,522 | 2,735 |
| 5 | February 11, 2018 02:30 | February 12, 2018 01:15 | 22h 45m | 840 | 13K |
| 6 | May 14, 2018 19:30 | May 14, 2018 21:45 | 2h 15m | 783 | 1,095 |
| 7 | December 14, 2018 18:45 | December 14, 2018 19:30 | 45m | 627 | 315 |
| 8 | January 2, 2018 11:00 | January 2, 2018 17:00 | 6h | 590 | 473 |
| 9 | June 26, 2018 18:00 | June 27, 2018 02:00 | 8h | 580 | 421 |
| 10 | April 23, 2018 13:00 | April 23, 2018 14:30 | 1h 30m | 438 | 167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 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 Harlan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 3.38 | 3.3 hrs | 3.12 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 3.23 | 4.9 hrs | 2.64 |
| 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 78% of Kentucky's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/kentucky/harlan-county