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2021 Barren County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Barren County, KY went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 101st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2296th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barren County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 11, 2021 07:15 | December 13, 2021 00:30 | 1d 17h | 2,379 | 16K |
| 2 | September 9, 2021 04:30 | September 9, 2021 07:45 | 3h 15m | 1,913 | 4,897 |
| 3 | December 28, 2021 09:30 | December 28, 2021 15:15 | 5h 45m | 1,146 | 4,205 |
| 4 | March 23, 2021 19:00 | March 23, 2021 23:00 | 4h | 856 | 220 |
| 5 | January 14, 2021 14:45 | January 14, 2021 22:30 | 7h 45m | 629 | 522 |
| 6 | January 25, 2021 02:15 | January 25, 2021 05:30 | 3h 15m | 610 | 784 |
| 7 | December 25, 2021 01:30 | December 25, 2021 08:30 | 7h | 543 | 2,521 |
| 8 | May 20, 2021 14:45 | May 20, 2021 21:00 | 6h 15m | 539 | 974 |
| 9 | January 6, 2021 00:45 | January 6, 2021 03:00 | 2h 15m | 472 | 484 |
| 10 | March 21, 2021 22:00 | March 21, 2021 22:30 | 30m | 406 | 203 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 31 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 Barren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 2.98 | 3.9 hrs | 2.89 |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2021 | 12.5 hrs | 1.92 | 2.1 hrs | 1.30 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glasgow - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,665 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. Barren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barren County, KY annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/kentucky/barren-county