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County annual report · FIPS 21199

2020 Pulaski County, KY Power Outage Report

In 2020, customers in Pulaski County, KY went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1595th of 3,019 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
4.0
42,258 customers
Customer-hours out
171K
Peak customers out
6,994
Outages ≥1,000 out
11
0 of 10,000+ · 747 total
Longest outage
2d 11h
began January 11, 2020
Rank in state
45th/119
1595th of 3,019 US

Compared with KY, the US and 2019

Pulaski County, KY average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2020Pulaski County 4.0 hours, Kentucky average 4.7 hours, US average 8.7 hours, Pulaski County, 2019 2.7 hoursPulaski CountyPulaski County4.0hKentucky averageKentucky average4.7hUS averageUS average8.7hPulaski County, 2019Pulaski County, 20192.7h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2020; last bar is this county in 2019.

Month by month

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Pulaski County, KY customer-hours without power by month, 2020Jan 48K, Feb 4,386, Mar 2,682, Apr 4,072, May 6,298, Jun 38K, Jul 12K, Aug 9,222, Sep 16K, Oct 7,211, Nov 20K, Dec 2,283020k40k60k48KJan4,386Feb2,682Mar4,072Apr6,298May38KJun12KJul9,222Aug16KSep7,211Oct20KNov2,283Dec
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Customer-hours; January was the worst month.

Pulaski County year over year

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Pulaski County, KY: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 0.8h; 2016: 0.2h; 2017: 0.1h; 2018: 0.6h, coverage 78%; 2019: 2.7h, coverage 92%; 2020: 4.0h, coverage 92%; 2021: 16.2h, coverage 92%; 2022: 6.0h, coverage 94%; 2023: 18.9h; 2024: 9.8h; 2025: 11.8h051015200%50%100%0.8h20150.2h20160.1h20170.6h20182.7h20194.0h202016.2h20216.0h202218.9h20239.8h202411.8h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Pulaski County, 2020

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1September 2, 2020 13:15September 2, 2020 16:002h 45m6,9946,734
2January 11, 2020 11:30January 13, 2020 22:302d 11h4,47145K
3March 13, 2020 01:15March 13, 2020 02:451h 30m3,112781
4August 6, 2020 19:45August 6, 2020 23:454h2,3524,113
5June 10, 2020 20:30June 12, 2020 01:151d 4h1,80326K
6November 15, 2020 09:30November 16, 2020 17:001d 7h1,78511K
7June 5, 2020 00:15June 5, 2020 21:3021h 15m1,3999,021
8September 4, 2020 18:00September 4, 2020 20:152h 15m1,184890
9September 4, 2020 21:45September 5, 2020 00:453h1,1803,245
10September 22, 2020 18:15September 22, 2020 21:153h1,1232,130

Outage episodes by size in 2020: 91 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pulaski County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Kentucky Utilities Co20201.9 hrs1.021.6 hrs0.96
Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY)20206.6 hrs2.834.6 hrs2.29
South Kentucky Rural E C C20206.3 hrs2.354.5 hrs2.05
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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 ÷ 42,258 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. Pulaski County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pulaski 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/pulaski-county

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