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2019 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1384th 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 Harlan 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 12, 2019 18:15 | December 12, 2019 22:00 | 3h 45m | 1,521 | 4,933 |
| 2 | July 30, 2019 20:45 | August 1, 2019 02:30 | 1d 5h | 1,369 | 1,784 |
| 3 | February 12, 2019 20:45 | February 13, 2019 07:00 | 10h 15m | 1,277 | 1,822 |
| 4 | October 26, 2019 19:00 | October 26, 2019 23:15 | 4h 15m | 1,126 | 914 |
| 5 | November 23, 2019 14:00 | November 23, 2019 23:15 | 9h 15m | 1,042 | 4,821 |
| 6 | December 13, 2019 18:45 | December 13, 2019 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,003 | 1,508 |
| 7 | January 19, 2019 17:00 | January 19, 2019 19:45 | 2h 45m | 599 | 715 |
| 8 | August 28, 2019 17:15 | August 28, 2019 17:30 | 15m | 579 | 145 |
| 9 | September 5, 2019 17:30 | September 5, 2019 20:45 | 3h 15m | 558 | 702 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 10:30 | November 28, 2019 06:15 | 19h 45m | 552 | 494 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 51 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 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 92% of Kentucky's customers in 2019; 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, 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/harlan-county