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2020 Barren County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barren County, KY went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2319th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barren County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 31, 2020 03:00 | July 31, 2020 04:15 | 1h 15m | 3,158 | 3,672 |
| 2 | June 14, 2020 15:15 | June 15, 2020 12:15 | 21h | 1,654 | 6,623 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 15:15 | January 11, 2020 23:00 | 7h 45m | 1,577 | 4,449 |
| 4 | January 12, 2020 00:30 | January 12, 2020 19:00 | 18h 30m | 1,108 | 6,765 |
| 5 | December 28, 2020 01:00 | December 28, 2020 03:00 | 2h | 991 | 1,893 |
| 6 | March 9, 2020 23:00 | March 10, 2020 02:30 | 3h 30m | 846 | 333 |
| 7 | March 3, 2020 04:45 | March 3, 2020 15:00 | 10h 15m | 782 | 2,542 |
| 8 | March 12, 2020 23:45 | March 13, 2020 05:45 | 6h | 678 | 2,377 |
| 9 | March 25, 2020 17:30 | March 25, 2020 17:45 | 15m | 476 | 119 |
| 10 | February 5, 2020 17:15 | February 5, 2020 19:30 | 2h 15m | 451 | 240 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Barren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 2.90 | 4.6 hrs | 2.90 |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.28 | 1.5 hrs | 1.13 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.27 | 2.0 hrs | 1.74 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glasgow - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,665 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. Barren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barren County, KY annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/kentucky/barren-county