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2019 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 541st 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 Letcher 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 | February 11, 2019 08:15 | February 11, 2019 21:30 | 13h 15m | 1,445 | 4,444 |
| 2 | February 23, 2019 09:30 | February 26, 2019 00:15 | 2d 14h | 1,166 | 6,888 |
| 3 | September 4, 2019 18:30 | September 5, 2019 01:00 | 6h 30m | 916 | 2,342 |
| 4 | July 3, 2019 19:00 | July 6, 2019 01:45 | 2d 6h | 788 | 6,872 |
| 5 | August 22, 2019 18:15 | August 23, 2019 21:30 | 1d 3h | 738 | 4,649 |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 16:30 | November 1, 2019 23:00 | 1d 6h | 637 | 3,636 |
| 7 | January 5, 2019 01:30 | January 5, 2019 20:00 | 18h 30m | 631 | 1,531 |
| 8 | May 27, 2019 00:30 | May 27, 2019 20:00 | 19h 30m | 564 | 6,403 |
| 9 | September 14, 2019 01:45 | September 14, 2019 21:30 | 19h 45m | 560 | 3,425 |
| 10 | February 17, 2019 16:00 | February 18, 2019 21:30 | 1d 5h | 534 | 2,362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 64 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 Letcher 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 |
| 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 92% of Kentucky's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county