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2020 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 60.6 hours, a total of 671K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 130th 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 Letcher 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 12, 2020 23:00 | April 20, 2020 20:45 | 7d 21h | 7,888 | 532K |
| 2 | April 22, 2020 10:30 | April 22, 2020 23:15 | 12h 45m | 1,749 | 15K |
| 3 | September 15, 2020 15:30 | September 15, 2020 16:15 | 45m | 1,552 | 1,164 |
| 4 | January 22, 2020 22:15 | January 23, 2020 03:45 | 5h 30m | 1,402 | 2,836 |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 11:15 | November 16, 2020 21:45 | 1d 10h | 1,146 | 9,513 |
| 6 | April 25, 2020 12:00 | April 26, 2020 04:45 | 16h 45m | 967 | 2,342 |
| 7 | May 14, 2020 15:45 | May 14, 2020 21:00 | 5h 15m | 875 | 2,290 |
| 8 | April 9, 2020 00:15 | April 9, 2020 16:30 | 16h 15m | 763 | 2,018 |
| 9 | December 24, 2020 22:30 | December 28, 2020 00:15 | 3d 1h | 747 | 23K |
| 10 | August 25, 2020 21:45 | August 26, 2020 19:45 | 22h | 608 | 1,339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 55 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2020 | 33.5 hrs | 6.41 | 6.5 hrs | 3.25 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county