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2021 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 132K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 511th 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 Breathitt 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 | February 15, 2021 23:00 | February 22, 2021 01:30 | 6d 2h | 1,867 | 74K |
| 2 | June 21, 2021 20:30 | June 22, 2021 17:30 | 21h | 1,437 | 2,941 |
| 3 | June 30, 2021 15:45 | June 30, 2021 19:30 | 3h 45m | 1,019 | 801 |
| 4 | February 5, 2021 19:45 | February 5, 2021 22:30 | 2h 45m | 972 | 767 |
| 5 | March 1, 2021 01:45 | March 4, 2021 02:30 | 3d | 950 | 4,343 |
| 6 | July 12, 2021 03:00 | July 12, 2021 23:00 | 20h | 848 | 3,127 |
| 7 | August 4, 2021 12:45 | August 4, 2021 19:15 | 6h 30m | 828 | 1,887 |
| 8 | July 30, 2021 04:45 | July 31, 2021 19:30 | 1d 14h | 610 | 15K |
| 9 | August 17, 2021 23:30 | August 18, 2021 23:00 | 23h 30m | 568 | 7,482 |
| 10 | October 25, 2021 22:00 | October 26, 2021 03:00 | 5h | 543 | 1,645 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 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 Breathitt 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 Power Co | 2021 | 47.4 hrs | 2.65 | 6.8 hrs | 1.86 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 45.5 hrs | 3.66 | 4.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2021 | 109.2 hrs | 5.10 | 8.2 hrs | 2.88 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt 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/breathitt-county