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2020 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 101st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2515th 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 Laurel 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 | February 10, 2020 11:45 | February 10, 2020 19:45 | 8h | 3,299 | 7,535 |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 11:00 | January 12, 2020 20:30 | 1d 9h | 2,670 | 12K |
| 3 | June 30, 2020 14:45 | June 30, 2020 18:00 | 3h 15m | 1,619 | 2,767 |
| 4 | June 1, 2020 14:30 | June 1, 2020 23:30 | 9h | 1,327 | 699 |
| 5 | June 9, 2020 17:15 | June 9, 2020 19:15 | 2h | 1,326 | 337 |
| 6 | March 4, 2020 19:45 | March 5, 2020 02:30 | 6h 45m | 1,318 | 1,281 |
| 7 | November 22, 2020 23:00 | November 23, 2020 01:00 | 2h | 1,294 | 1,419 |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 11:30 | November 16, 2020 04:15 | 16h 45m | 1,164 | 2,285 |
| 9 | May 20, 2020 07:30 | May 20, 2020 11:15 | 3h 45m | 808 | 925 |
| 10 | October 16, 2020 09:30 | October 16, 2020 11:15 | 1h 45m | 767 | 1,159 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Laurel 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 2.83 | 4.6 hrs | 2.29 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2020 | 6.3 hrs | 2.35 | 4.5 hrs | 2.05 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2020 | 33.5 hrs | 6.41 | 6.5 hrs | 3.25 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel 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/laurel-county