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2020 Clay County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, KY went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1401st 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 Clay 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 16:45 | January 18, 2020 21:15 | 7d 4h | 1,164 | 8,995 |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 14:00 | November 16, 2020 03:00 | 13h | 1,071 | 4,518 |
| 3 | January 7, 2020 09:30 | January 7, 2020 12:45 | 3h 15m | 1,052 | 359 |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 22:45 | December 27, 2020 21:45 | 2d 23h | 807 | 15K |
| 5 | November 16, 2020 06:45 | November 16, 2020 07:00 | 15m | 631 | 158 |
| 6 | January 31, 2020 16:00 | January 31, 2020 18:30 | 2h 30m | 628 | 1,142 |
| 7 | January 4, 2020 04:30 | January 4, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 404 | 606 |
| 8 | December 30, 2020 20:00 | December 31, 2020 00:15 | 4h 15m | 398 | 948 |
| 9 | May 24, 2020 01:45 | May 24, 2020 13:00 | 11h 15m | 256 | 1,544 |
| 10 | May 20, 2020 20:15 | May 21, 2020 00:00 | 3h 45m | 254 | 929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 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 Clay 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 |
| 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2020 | 33.5 hrs | 6.41 | 6.5 hrs | 3.25 |
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 ÷ 11,735 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county