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2020 McCracken County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McCracken County, KY went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2318th 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 McCracken 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 | March 12, 2020 16:45 | March 12, 2020 21:00 | 4h 15m | 6,420 | 14K |
| 2 | June 30, 2020 20:15 | July 1, 2020 04:00 | 7h 45m | 2,858 | 2,402 |
| 3 | August 26, 2020 17:45 | August 26, 2020 19:30 | 1h 45m | 2,205 | 944 |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 11:00 | June 9, 2020 15:30 | 4h 30m | 2,084 | 3,030 |
| 5 | November 2, 2020 23:15 | November 3, 2020 01:30 | 2h 15m | 1,229 | 929 |
| 6 | March 18, 2020 14:30 | March 18, 2020 16:15 | 1h 45m | 1,037 | 794 |
| 7 | February 1, 2020 20:45 | February 1, 2020 21:00 | 15m | 1,009 | 252 |
| 8 | January 1, 2020 08:30 | January 1, 2020 13:45 | 5h 15m | 978 | 1,172 |
| 9 | July 4, 2020 17:45 | July 5, 2020 01:15 | 7h 30m | 947 | 1,997 |
| 10 | June 12, 2020 16:00 | June 12, 2020 19:45 | 3h 45m | 940 | 812 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 McCracken 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 Purchase Energy Corporation | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.38 | 1.6 hrs | 1.31 |
| City of Paducah - (KY) | 2020 | 42 min | 1.34 | 42 min | 1.34 |
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 ÷ 36,761 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. McCracken County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCracken 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/mccracken-county