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2020 Whitley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Whitley County, KY went without power for an average of 14.3 hours, a total of 263K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 579th 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 Whitley 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 | April 12, 2020 23:45 | April 19, 2020 04:30 | 6d 4h | 7,182 | 210K |
| 2 | May 19, 2020 08:30 | May 19, 2020 23:45 | 15h 15m | 5,629 | 6,420 |
| 3 | March 13, 2020 01:15 | March 13, 2020 03:30 | 2h 15m | 2,239 | 1,217 |
| 4 | October 10, 2020 01:00 | October 11, 2020 14:30 | 1d 13h | 1,058 | 6,372 |
| 5 | September 15, 2020 11:15 | September 15, 2020 16:00 | 4h 45m | 1,054 | 914 |
| 6 | February 6, 2020 10:00 | February 13, 2020 18:00 | 7d 8h | 1,019 | 5,125 |
| 7 | August 31, 2020 14:15 | August 31, 2020 22:30 | 8h 15m | 1,000 | 331 |
| 8 | May 20, 2020 01:30 | May 20, 2020 05:00 | 3h 30m | 977 | 605 |
| 9 | July 28, 2020 22:45 | July 29, 2020 01:45 | 3h | 972 | 567 |
| 10 | July 8, 2020 21:15 | July 9, 2020 01:30 | 4h 15m | 971 | 494 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 47 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Whitley 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2020 | 33.5 hrs | 6.41 | 6.5 hrs | 3.25 |
| City of Jellico | - | - | - | - | - |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,361 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. Whitley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitley 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/whitley-county