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2020 Washington County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, KY went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 9,890 customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2338th 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 Washington 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 | August 19, 2020 15:30 | August 19, 2020 18:15 | 2h 45m | 931 | 2,560 |
| 2 | October 19, 2020 14:45 | October 19, 2020 20:15 | 5h 30m | 432 | 157 |
| 3 | June 30, 2020 01:00 | June 30, 2020 09:30 | 8h 30m | 352 | 1,061 |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 04:45 | April 9, 2020 15:30 | 10h 45m | 247 | 1,153 |
| 5 | August 3, 2020 22:00 | August 4, 2020 00:30 | 2h 30m | 184 | 104 |
| 6 | December 1, 2020 01:00 | December 1, 2020 02:30 | 1h 30m | 131 | 197 |
| 7 | June 10, 2020 21:45 | June 11, 2020 01:00 | 3h 15m | 120 | 118 |
| 8 | August 12, 2020 18:15 | August 12, 2020 19:00 | 45m | 118 | 89 |
| 9 | October 13, 2020 01:15 | October 13, 2020 10:15 | 9h | 118 | 275 |
| 10 | January 11, 2020 15:45 | January 11, 2020 20:15 | 4h 30m | 111 | 181 |
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 Washington 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2020 | 3.2 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.52 | 88 min | 0.95 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.99 | 86 min | 0.88 |
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 ÷ 5,512 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county