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2020 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 17.1 hours, a total of 136K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 493rd 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 Breathitt 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 | December 22, 2020 21:00 | December 23, 2020 02:30 | 5h 30m | 1,950 | 8,646 |
| 2 | December 2, 2020 19:30 | December 2, 2020 20:15 | 45m | 1,933 | 1,449 |
| 3 | March 25, 2020 00:30 | March 25, 2020 02:45 | 2h 15m | 1,917 | 1,169 |
| 4 | December 23, 2020 04:30 | December 23, 2020 05:30 | 1h | 1,890 | 479 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 02:30 | April 18, 2020 19:15 | 5d 16h | 1,694 | 57K |
| 6 | November 15, 2020 13:00 | November 16, 2020 18:30 | 1d 5h | 1,497 | 7,010 |
| 7 | June 23, 2020 06:45 | June 23, 2020 09:15 | 2h 30m | 972 | 978 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 21:45 | December 28, 2020 20:15 | 3d 22h | 743 | 22K |
| 9 | May 23, 2020 23:00 | May 25, 2020 15:45 | 1d 16h | 610 | 2,539 |
| 10 | March 27, 2020 18:15 | March 27, 2020 20:15 | 2h | 540 | 1,029 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 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 Breathitt 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 Power Co | 2020 | 29.2 hrs | 2.69 | 6.8 hrs | 2.06 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 2.83 | 4.6 hrs | 2.29 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2020 | 12.3 hrs | 3.74 | 11.3 hrs | 3.62 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt 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/breathitt-county