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2020 Carter County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carter County, KY went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 868th 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 Carter 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 25, 2020 00:00 | December 28, 2020 16:45 | 3d 16h | 1,414 | 8,971 |
| 2 | April 9, 2020 02:15 | April 13, 2020 22:30 | 4d 20h | 1,321 | 38K |
| 3 | August 1, 2020 17:15 | August 2, 2020 22:15 | 1d 5h | 1,125 | 6,007 |
| 4 | December 29, 2020 22:30 | December 30, 2020 05:45 | 7h 15m | 989 | 6,888 |
| 5 | April 14, 2020 05:30 | April 14, 2020 11:45 | 6h 15m | 952 | 5,039 |
| 6 | May 24, 2020 12:15 | May 24, 2020 15:00 | 2h 45m | 881 | 2,422 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 15:00 | November 16, 2020 17:30 | 1d 2h | 818 | 1,833 |
| 8 | November 30, 2020 10:30 | November 30, 2020 14:30 | 4h | 608 | 1,130 |
| 9 | April 29, 2020 13:45 | April 30, 2020 03:15 | 13h 30m | 590 | 864 |
| 10 | July 5, 2020 22:00 | July 5, 2020 23:15 | 1h 15m | 573 | 574 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 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 Carter 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 |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 5.6 hrs | 2.48 | 5.6 hrs | 2.48 |
| City of Olive Hill - (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 ÷ 12,835 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. Carter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carter 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/carter-county