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2020 Powell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Powell County, KY went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2236th 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 Powell 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 | July 6, 2020 23:15 | July 7, 2020 22:45 | 23h 30m | 721 | 1,701 |
| 2 | May 21, 2020 14:00 | May 21, 2020 14:15 | 15m | 262 | 66 |
| 3 | September 4, 2020 18:45 | September 15, 2020 14:45 | 10d 20h | 214 | 794 |
| 4 | November 13, 2020 23:00 | November 16, 2020 21:00 | 2d 22h | 146 | 1,236 |
| 5 | July 23, 2020 18:30 | July 23, 2020 22:00 | 3h 30m | 142 | 113 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 02:45 | January 31, 2020 15:15 | 20d 12h | 129 | 1,760 |
| 7 | February 7, 2020 18:30 | February 7, 2020 22:15 | 3h 45m | 116 | 75 |
| 8 | May 5, 2020 17:00 | May 5, 2020 18:45 | 1h 45m | 115 | 113 |
| 9 | April 7, 2020 12:30 | April 9, 2020 19:30 | 2d 7h | 112 | 687 |
| 10 | April 13, 2020 15:30 | April 13, 2020 16:15 | 45m | 112 | 57 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Powell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2020 | 6.6 hrs | 2.83 | 4.6 hrs | 2.29 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | 1.63 | 2.9 hrs | 1.46 |
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 ÷ 8,244 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. Powell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powell 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/powell-county