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2021 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 600K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 509th 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 Laurel 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 21:45 | February 24, 2021 13:30 | 8d 15h | 15,796 | 540K |
| 2 | June 13, 2021 23:30 | June 14, 2021 19:15 | 19h 45m | 1,959 | 10K |
| 3 | July 10, 2021 17:00 | July 11, 2021 05:45 | 12h 45m | 1,507 | 792 |
| 4 | July 30, 2021 07:30 | July 31, 2021 00:00 | 16h 30m | 1,296 | 5,936 |
| 5 | November 17, 2021 19:30 | November 17, 2021 21:30 | 2h | 1,050 | 1,050 |
| 6 | February 25, 2021 14:45 | February 25, 2021 23:30 | 8h 45m | 1,042 | 291 |
| 7 | March 1, 2021 01:45 | March 1, 2021 21:45 | 20h | 1,017 | 1,819 |
| 8 | February 8, 2021 03:45 | February 8, 2021 05:15 | 1h 30m | 943 | 708 |
| 9 | October 30, 2021 11:00 | October 30, 2021 15:30 | 4h 30m | 610 | 924 |
| 10 | May 25, 2021 15:30 | May 25, 2021 16:15 | 45m | 606 | 152 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 49 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Laurel 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 45.5 hrs | 3.66 | 4.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2021 | 23.7 hrs | 3.63 | 5.4 hrs | 2.57 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2021 | 16.2 hrs | 3.74 | 4.6 hrs | 2.41 |
| 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 ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel 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/laurel-county