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2021 Fayette County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Fayette County, KY went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 271K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 107th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2417th 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 Fayette 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 10, 2021 16:30 | February 19, 2021 14:15 | 8d 21h | 11,702 | 104K |
| 2 | November 11, 2021 12:15 | November 12, 2021 02:30 | 14h 15m | 7,326 | 2,404 |
| 3 | February 25, 2021 15:15 | February 25, 2021 22:30 | 7h 15m | 7,119 | 1,975 |
| 4 | October 18, 2021 11:30 | October 19, 2021 01:45 | 14h 15m | 5,323 | 1,487 |
| 5 | June 2, 2021 11:45 | June 3, 2021 00:00 | 12h 15m | 4,433 | 1,713 |
| 6 | November 1, 2021 13:00 | November 1, 2021 18:45 | 5h 45m | 4,248 | 1,103 |
| 7 | May 21, 2021 05:15 | May 21, 2021 05:30 | 15m | 3,763 | 941 |
| 8 | September 23, 2021 06:45 | September 24, 2021 11:15 | 1d 4h | 3,740 | 2,100 |
| 9 | June 12, 2021 12:15 | June 14, 2021 05:45 | 1d 17h | 3,081 | 26K |
| 10 | October 21, 2021 19:45 | October 22, 2021 00:45 | 5h | 3,015 | 816 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 126 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Fayette 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 1.49 | 2.6 hrs | 1.27 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2021 | 43.8 hrs | 3.83 | 3.7 hrs | 1.82 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 170,657 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county