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2020 Lawrence County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lawrence County, KY went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 543rd 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 Lawrence 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 | August 18, 2020 13:30 | August 18, 2020 22:30 | 9h | 1,825 | 5,832 |
| 2 | December 25, 2020 01:00 | December 26, 2020 21:45 | 1d 20h | 1,303 | 23K |
| 3 | December 12, 2020 22:00 | December 13, 2020 02:15 | 4h 15m | 818 | 633 |
| 4 | February 23, 2020 14:15 | February 23, 2020 21:45 | 7h 30m | 743 | 1,783 |
| 5 | August 14, 2020 22:45 | August 15, 2020 08:30 | 9h 45m | 719 | 4,699 |
| 6 | February 7, 2020 11:15 | February 8, 2020 04:00 | 16h 45m | 706 | 2,476 |
| 7 | December 13, 2020 04:30 | December 13, 2020 09:30 | 5h | 692 | 372 |
| 8 | February 22, 2020 10:30 | February 22, 2020 18:00 | 7h 30m | 672 | 2,137 |
| 9 | September 3, 2020 07:15 | September 4, 2020 17:45 | 1d 10h | 598 | 2,389 |
| 10 | July 30, 2020 13:00 | July 31, 2020 12:15 | 23h 15m | 520 | 1,774 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 56 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 Lawrence 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 |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 5.6 hrs | 2.48 | 5.6 hrs | 2.48 |
| 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 ÷ 8,553 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. Lawrence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lawrence 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/lawrence-county