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2020 Union County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, KY went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 6,840 customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 109th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2654th 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 Union 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 | September 2, 2020 21:30 | September 2, 2020 23:45 | 2h 15m | 503 | 129 |
| 2 | October 8, 2020 17:15 | October 8, 2020 18:30 | 1h 15m | 437 | 124 |
| 3 | August 11, 2020 01:45 | August 11, 2020 09:00 | 7h 15m | 353 | 945 |
| 4 | March 29, 2020 00:45 | March 29, 2020 17:00 | 16h 15m | 285 | 536 |
| 5 | April 15, 2020 23:15 | April 16, 2020 00:30 | 1h 15m | 251 | 314 |
| 6 | April 25, 2020 14:30 | April 25, 2020 15:15 | 45m | 183 | 137 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 15:00 | November 15, 2020 15:45 | 45m | 170 | 128 |
| 8 | March 12, 2020 20:00 | March 12, 2020 21:30 | 1h 30m | 127 | 53 |
| 9 | July 12, 2020 06:15 | July 12, 2020 14:30 | 8h 15m | 110 | 189 |
| 10 | May 26, 2020 00:45 | May 26, 2020 03:30 | 2h 45m | 107 | 294 |
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 Union 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 |
| Kenergy Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.56 | 86 min | 1.21 |
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 ÷ 6,794 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county