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2021 Caldwell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Caldwell County, KY went without power for an average of 15.7 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 542nd 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 Caldwell 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 03:00 | December 18, 2021 00:15 | 6d 21h | 2,603 | 85K |
| 2 | June 17, 2021 21:45 | June 18, 2021 00:15 | 2h 30m | 1,423 | 2,565 |
| 3 | May 6, 2021 22:15 | May 7, 2021 01:30 | 3h 15m | 1,414 | 369 |
| 4 | August 12, 2021 15:15 | August 12, 2021 21:30 | 6h 15m | 397 | 816 |
| 5 | October 25, 2021 15:45 | October 25, 2021 16:45 | 1h | 352 | 352 |
| 6 | March 19, 2021 12:15 | March 19, 2021 13:00 | 45m | 320 | 240 |
| 7 | April 6, 2021 02:15 | April 6, 2021 03:15 | 1h | 203 | 153 |
| 8 | November 18, 2021 21:30 | November 18, 2021 23:30 | 2h | 177 | 354 |
| 9 | March 31, 2021 07:15 | March 31, 2021 08:45 | 1h 30m | 175 | 51 |
| 10 | September 14, 2021 19:15 | September 14, 2021 20:15 | 1h | 175 | 175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 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 Caldwell 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 |
| Kenergy Corp | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.60 | 83 min | 1.20 |
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | 2021 | 10.4 hrs | 2.63 | 2.7 hrs | 1.66 |
| City of Princeton - (KY) | 2018 | 4 min | 0.07 | 4 min | 0.07 |
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 ÷ 5,933 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. Caldwell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caldwell 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/caldwell-county