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2020 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1440th 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 Harlan 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 | April 1, 2020 16:30 | April 1, 2020 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1,236 | 519 |
| 2 | May 16, 2020 17:45 | May 16, 2020 20:15 | 2h 30m | 1,149 | 1,411 |
| 3 | August 31, 2020 06:30 | August 31, 2020 08:15 | 1h 45m | 1,003 | 529 |
| 4 | July 25, 2020 21:15 | July 26, 2020 01:45 | 4h 30m | 970 | 501 |
| 5 | October 6, 2020 16:15 | October 6, 2020 16:45 | 30m | 958 | 241 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 00:45 | April 16, 2020 16:00 | 3d 15h | 901 | 12K |
| 7 | December 24, 2020 22:30 | December 26, 2020 20:30 | 1d 22h | 886 | 8,469 |
| 8 | August 31, 2020 20:45 | September 1, 2020 01:30 | 4h 45m | 883 | 346 |
| 9 | August 31, 2020 10:30 | August 31, 2020 14:45 | 4h 15m | 879 | 457 |
| 10 | August 31, 2020 18:15 | August 31, 2020 19:00 | 45m | 877 | 330 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 62 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 Harlan 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 2.90 | 4.6 hrs | 2.90 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2020 | 33.5 hrs | 6.41 | 6.5 hrs | 3.25 |
| City of Benham | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,700 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. Harlan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harlan 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/harlan-county