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2020 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Russell County, KY went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1902nd 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 Russell 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 | November 2, 2020 12:30 | November 2, 2020 15:15 | 2h 45m | 1,570 | 403 |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 13:30 | January 12, 2020 22:30 | 1d 9h | 1,030 | 6,111 |
| 3 | November 22, 2020 23:00 | November 23, 2020 05:45 | 6h 45m | 1,011 | 5,293 |
| 4 | July 7, 2020 01:30 | July 7, 2020 15:00 | 13h 30m | 981 | 4,285 |
| 5 | February 5, 2020 04:00 | February 5, 2020 06:00 | 2h | 942 | 1,504 |
| 6 | August 4, 2020 00:45 | August 4, 2020 02:30 | 1h 45m | 937 | 1,506 |
| 7 | February 20, 2020 15:15 | February 20, 2020 16:15 | 1h | 903 | 903 |
| 8 | January 20, 2020 21:15 | January 20, 2020 21:45 | 30m | 791 | 396 |
| 9 | March 11, 2020 07:15 | March 11, 2020 07:30 | 15m | 645 | 161 |
| 10 | June 24, 2020 12:00 | June 24, 2020 19:15 | 7h 15m | 629 | 1,280 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Russell 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 |
| Taylor County Rural E C C | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 1.20 | 81 min | 1.00 |
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 ÷ 11,596 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county