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2021 Lawrence County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lawrence County, KY went without power for an average of 196.4 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 28th 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 Lawrence 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 11, 2021 00:30 | March 7, 2021 00:15 | 23d 23h | 9,645 | 1.6M |
| 2 | August 17, 2021 23:15 | August 18, 2021 22:30 | 23h 15m | 1,139 | 4,515 |
| 3 | November 10, 2021 13:45 | November 10, 2021 20:15 | 6h 30m | 821 | 891 |
| 4 | May 9, 2021 18:45 | May 10, 2021 09:15 | 14h 30m | 768 | 1,831 |
| 5 | July 9, 2021 15:15 | July 11, 2021 19:00 | 2d 3h | 732 | 10K |
| 6 | April 16, 2021 12:00 | April 16, 2021 17:30 | 5h 30m | 687 | 3,431 |
| 7 | May 13, 2021 05:45 | May 13, 2021 13:45 | 8h | 681 | 1,894 |
| 8 | September 29, 2021 13:30 | September 29, 2021 21:15 | 7h 45m | 590 | 530 |
| 9 | September 1, 2021 18:15 | September 1, 2021 20:45 | 2h 30m | 585 | 592 |
| 10 | January 29, 2021 13:30 | January 29, 2021 18:15 | 4h 45m | 565 | 2,243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 55 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Lawrence 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 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2021 | 109.2 hrs | 5.10 | 8.2 hrs | 2.88 |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2021 | 193.5 hrs | 4.64 | 6.0 hrs | 2.26 |
| 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 ÷ 8,553 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. Lawrence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lawrence 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/lawrence-county