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2020 Knott County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Knott County, KY went without power for an average of 81.6 hours, a total of 576K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 89th 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 Knott 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 13, 2020 01:00 | April 21, 2020 00:00 | 7d 23h | 7,346 | 473K |
| 2 | April 21, 2020 14:45 | April 22, 2020 18:15 | 1d 3h | 2,533 | 3,924 |
| 3 | June 27, 2020 00:15 | June 27, 2020 04:45 | 4h 30m | 1,748 | 5,856 |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 15:45 | January 13, 2020 23:15 | 2d 7h | 1,307 | 7,332 |
| 5 | September 15, 2020 15:30 | September 15, 2020 16:15 | 45m | 1,241 | 931 |
| 6 | June 5, 2020 03:45 | June 5, 2020 23:15 | 19h 30m | 1,073 | 5,883 |
| 7 | February 1, 2020 11:45 | February 1, 2020 18:00 | 6h 15m | 870 | 4,227 |
| 8 | December 25, 2020 00:00 | December 28, 2020 01:15 | 3d 1h | 799 | 17K |
| 9 | March 16, 2020 13:30 | March 16, 2020 22:30 | 9h | 751 | 961 |
| 10 | April 8, 2020 19:00 | April 10, 2020 03:45 | 1d 8h | 621 | 3,508 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Knott 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 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2020 | 12.3 hrs | 3.74 | 11.3 hrs | 3.62 |
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 ÷ 7,061 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. Knott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knott 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/knott-county