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2020 Lee County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, KY went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1501st 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 Lee 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 | January 11, 2020 19:15 | January 13, 2020 06:45 | 1d 11h | 2,494 | 6,821 |
| 2 | May 25, 2020 23:00 | May 26, 2020 01:15 | 2h 15m | 787 | 303 |
| 3 | November 10, 2020 23:45 | November 11, 2020 07:00 | 7h 15m | 673 | 1,172 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 07:00 | April 13, 2020 18:30 | 11h 30m | 346 | 310 |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 18:00 | November 15, 2020 23:00 | 5h | 256 | 556 |
| 6 | December 1, 2020 04:15 | December 1, 2020 06:45 | 2h 30m | 138 | 287 |
| 7 | March 29, 2020 17:45 | March 30, 2020 01:15 | 7h 30m | 127 | 266 |
| 8 | October 12, 2020 15:45 | October 12, 2020 19:15 | 3h 30m | 118 | 291 |
| 9 | April 29, 2020 22:15 | April 30, 2020 00:15 | 2h | 104 | 108 |
| 10 | January 13, 2020 20:30 | January 14, 2020 00:15 | 3h 45m | 101 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lee 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 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,961 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county