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2018 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 2256th 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 McCreary 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 | July 21, 2018 01:30 | July 21, 2018 14:45 | 13h 15m | 994 | 4,030 |
| 2 | June 9, 2018 22:00 | June 10, 2018 08:45 | 10h 45m | 748 | 2,305 |
| 3 | May 20, 2018 18:45 | May 20, 2018 22:30 | 3h 45m | 747 | 2,055 |
| 4 | July 6, 2018 21:15 | July 6, 2018 22:45 | 1h 30m | 616 | 924 |
| 5 | September 7, 2018 00:00 | September 7, 2018 15:30 | 15h 30m | 269 | 946 |
| 6 | September 14, 2018 18:00 | September 14, 2018 20:15 | 2h 15m | 161 | 362 |
| 7 | April 4, 2018 04:15 | April 4, 2018 15:30 | 11h 15m | 96 | 435 |
| 8 | July 30, 2018 14:45 | July 30, 2018 15:00 | 15m | 96 | 24 |
| 9 | July 14, 2018 14:30 | July 14, 2018 15:30 | 1h | 49 | 24 |
| 10 | April 16, 2018 01:30 | April 16, 2018 09:30 | 8h | 45 | 272 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 McCreary 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 4.8 hrs | 2.19 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 3.23 | 4.9 hrs | 2.64 |
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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county