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2020 Butler County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Butler County, KY went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2258th 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 Butler 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 | October 10, 2020 13:00 | October 10, 2020 13:30 | 30m | 2,961 | 741 |
| 2 | July 31, 2020 20:15 | July 31, 2020 21:15 | 1h | 952 | 716 |
| 3 | July 2, 2020 22:00 | July 2, 2020 22:15 | 15m | 864 | 216 |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 11:15 | January 11, 2020 23:45 | 12h 30m | 846 | 772 |
| 5 | July 26, 2020 19:30 | July 26, 2020 22:15 | 2h 45m | 615 | 478 |
| 6 | August 15, 2020 02:45 | August 15, 2020 08:30 | 5h 45m | 560 | 1,823 |
| 7 | July 21, 2020 22:00 | July 22, 2020 10:45 | 12h 45m | 425 | 464 |
| 8 | November 22, 2020 20:45 | November 23, 2020 00:00 | 3h 15m | 342 | 174 |
| 9 | March 15, 2020 01:15 | March 15, 2020 02:15 | 1h | 295 | 294 |
| 10 | March 13, 2020 05:30 | March 13, 2020 06:00 | 30m | 294 | 147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 2.93 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.27 | 2.0 hrs | 1.74 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,824 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. Butler County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county