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2019 Mercer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Mercer County, KY went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 2175th 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 Mercer 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 | September 13, 2019 15:00 | September 13, 2019 17:00 | 2h | 932 | 1,166 |
| 2 | October 7, 2019 16:00 | October 7, 2019 18:15 | 2h 15m | 631 | 1,420 |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 13:45 | October 31, 2019 21:30 | 7h 45m | 631 | 178 |
| 4 | July 3, 2019 17:15 | July 4, 2019 05:45 | 12h 30m | 487 | 649 |
| 5 | March 27, 2019 11:00 | March 27, 2019 12:45 | 1h 45m | 482 | 363 |
| 6 | April 21, 2019 17:30 | April 21, 2019 21:45 | 4h 15m | 480 | 225 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 09:30 | November 28, 2019 09:00 | 23h 30m | 450 | 2,037 |
| 8 | March 14, 2019 14:45 | March 15, 2019 21:30 | 1d 6h | 428 | 1,474 |
| 9 | July 18, 2019 01:45 | July 18, 2019 09:30 | 7h 45m | 343 | 1,049 |
| 10 | July 21, 2019 16:30 | July 21, 2019 23:30 | 7h | 254 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 22 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 Mercer 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.62 | 2.6 hrs | 1.12 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 9.1 hrs | 2.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 5.6 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 |
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 ÷ 11,645 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county