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2020 Meade County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Meade County, KY went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1656th 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 Meade 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 17, 2020 13:45 | January 17, 2020 14:15 | 30m | 1,409 | 353 |
| 2 | December 15, 2020 13:30 | December 15, 2020 15:30 | 2h | 650 | 1,300 |
| 3 | March 11, 2020 15:45 | March 12, 2020 14:00 | 22h 15m | 573 | 617 |
| 4 | February 1, 2020 13:30 | February 3, 2020 13:00 | 1d 23h | 571 | 27K |
| 5 | September 4, 2020 14:00 | September 4, 2020 21:30 | 7h 30m | 564 | 443 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 15:30 | January 11, 2020 20:00 | 4h 30m | 563 | 1,029 |
| 7 | November 1, 2020 17:30 | November 1, 2020 19:00 | 1h 30m | 543 | 161 |
| 8 | November 1, 2020 19:45 | November 2, 2020 14:30 | 18h 45m | 472 | 543 |
| 9 | December 24, 2020 03:15 | December 28, 2020 14:30 | 4d 11h | 459 | 1,635 |
| 10 | April 9, 2020 17:00 | April 9, 2020 18:00 | 1h | 379 | 197 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 26 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 0.88 | 72 min | 0.75 |
| Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 62 min | 0.79 | 39 min | 0.50 |
| Meade County Rural E C C | 2020 | 68 min | 0.78 | 68 min | 0.78 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,076 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. Meade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county