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2020 Franklin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, KY went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 117th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2775th 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 Franklin 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 | September 10, 2020 19:30 | September 10, 2020 20:30 | 1h | 1,668 | 836 |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 15:00 | March 29, 2020 18:00 | 3h | 1,012 | 571 |
| 3 | November 15, 2020 08:00 | November 15, 2020 09:45 | 1h 45m | 912 | 1,584 |
| 4 | August 8, 2020 00:00 | August 8, 2020 02:30 | 2h 30m | 419 | 840 |
| 5 | April 9, 2020 03:30 | April 9, 2020 14:30 | 11h | 408 | 1,523 |
| 6 | October 13, 2020 01:15 | October 13, 2020 04:45 | 3h 30m | 405 | 518 |
| 7 | October 20, 2020 21:00 | October 21, 2020 01:15 | 4h 15m | 376 | 1,500 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 13:30 | December 24, 2020 20:45 | 7h 15m | 376 | 1,497 |
| 9 | April 20, 2020 18:30 | April 20, 2020 19:00 | 30m | 300 | 76 |
| 10 | November 16, 2020 17:00 | November 16, 2020 18:15 | 1h 15m | 298 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Franklin 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2020 | 3.2 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY) | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 0.94 | 1.9 hrs | 0.77 |
| City of Frankfort - (KY) | 2020 | 33 min | 0.22 | 14 min | 0.16 |
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 ÷ 25,840 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county