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2020 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 10.6 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 751st 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 McCreary 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 23:45 | April 16, 2020 17:45 | 3d 18h | 7,829 | 56K |
| 2 | October 20, 2020 01:00 | October 20, 2020 04:30 | 3h 30m | 3,590 | 8,257 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 14:45 | January 12, 2020 22:00 | 1d 7h | 2,841 | 12K |
| 4 | July 22, 2020 02:00 | July 22, 2020 06:15 | 4h 15m | 1,078 | 1,080 |
| 5 | May 29, 2020 15:45 | May 30, 2020 00:15 | 8h 30m | 1,029 | 3,682 |
| 6 | February 29, 2020 18:15 | February 29, 2020 20:30 | 2h 15m | 956 | 1,004 |
| 7 | March 13, 2020 01:15 | March 13, 2020 23:15 | 22h | 910 | 6,629 |
| 8 | October 8, 2020 19:00 | October 8, 2020 19:45 | 45m | 847 | 424 |
| 9 | May 25, 2020 18:00 | May 26, 2020 00:30 | 6h 30m | 742 | 2,604 |
| 10 | May 5, 2020 23:15 | May 6, 2020 02:30 | 3h 15m | 735 | 2,386 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 38 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 McCreary 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county