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2019 Union County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Union County, KY went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1679th 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 Union 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 10, 2019 00:30 | December 10, 2019 01:00 | 30m | 1,913 | 957 |
| 2 | December 15, 2019 23:45 | December 16, 2019 01:15 | 1h 30m | 1,913 | 959 |
| 3 | January 30, 2019 09:45 | January 30, 2019 13:45 | 4h | 777 | 2,951 |
| 4 | December 30, 2019 09:15 | December 30, 2019 13:15 | 4h | 770 | 1,434 |
| 5 | October 6, 2019 19:00 | October 6, 2019 20:30 | 1h 30m | 767 | 603 |
| 6 | March 14, 2019 15:15 | March 15, 2019 20:15 | 1d 5h | 745 | 4,253 |
| 7 | April 23, 2019 18:00 | April 24, 2019 01:15 | 7h 15m | 505 | 1,273 |
| 8 | August 20, 2019 19:45 | August 20, 2019 21:30 | 1h 45m | 442 | 660 |
| 9 | July 9, 2019 22:30 | July 9, 2019 23:45 | 1h 15m | 277 | 275 |
| 10 | July 22, 2019 01:15 | July 22, 2019 07:00 | 5h 45m | 220 | 71 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 18 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 Union 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 |
| Kenergy Corp | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.99 | 1.8 hrs | 1.59 |
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 ÷ 6,794 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county