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2019 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 536th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Breathitt County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 13, 2019 22:30 | December 14, 2019 01:30 | 3h | 921 | 886 |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 08:00 | February 26, 2019 22:00 | 2d 14h | 851 | 6,340 |
| 3 | May 3, 2019 16:45 | May 3, 2019 21:45 | 5h | 841 | 4,060 |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 19:00 | April 11, 2019 19:30 | 30m | 836 | 418 |
| 5 | August 20, 2019 14:00 | August 20, 2019 21:15 | 7h 15m | 815 | 1,655 |
| 6 | March 7, 2019 15:00 | March 8, 2019 00:15 | 9h 15m | 810 | 4,857 |
| 7 | June 19, 2019 01:45 | June 19, 2019 21:15 | 19h 30m | 571 | 4,989 |
| 8 | May 29, 2019 18:15 | May 30, 2019 18:00 | 23h 45m | 569 | 3,780 |
| 9 | May 8, 2019 22:15 | May 9, 2019 00:30 | 2h 15m | 522 | 916 |
| 10 | May 9, 2019 01:30 | May 9, 2019 10:00 | 8h 30m | 522 | 448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 35 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 Breathitt County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | 2018 | 10.4 hrs | 2.55 | 8.1 hrs | 2.34 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 9.6 hrs | 2.67 | 4.5 hrs | 2.22 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 13.0 hrs | 4.51 | 7.5 hrs | 3.77 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 92% of Kentucky's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt County, KY annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/kentucky/breathitt-county