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2020 Caldwell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Caldwell County, KY went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1874th 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 Caldwell 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 | January 11, 2020 12:30 | January 12, 2020 19:30 | 1d 7h | 2,230 | 3,467 |
| 2 | July 20, 2020 21:30 | July 21, 2020 00:45 | 3h 15m | 1,409 | 3,828 |
| 3 | September 1, 2020 19:30 | September 1, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 1,409 | 352 |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 18:15 | April 10, 2020 02:15 | 8h | 557 | 1,905 |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 09:45 | November 15, 2020 17:00 | 7h 15m | 465 | 519 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 06:30 | July 12, 2020 19:30 | 13h | 376 | 882 |
| 7 | July 8, 2020 20:00 | July 9, 2020 00:00 | 4h | 369 | 200 |
| 8 | August 12, 2020 17:00 | August 12, 2020 19:00 | 2h | 366 | 290 |
| 9 | May 26, 2020 00:15 | May 26, 2020 00:45 | 30m | 321 | 161 |
| 10 | July 5, 2020 20:15 | July 5, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 288 | 219 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Caldwell 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 |
| Kenergy Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.56 | 86 min | 1.21 |
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 2.93 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| City of Princeton - (KY) | 2018 | 4 min | 0.07 | 4 min | 0.07 |
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 ÷ 5,933 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. Caldwell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caldwell 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/caldwell-county