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2021 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 136K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 670th 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 Letcher 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 7, 2021 09:15 | February 8, 2021 03:30 | 18h 15m | 1,609 | 6,451 |
| 2 | February 12, 2021 02:30 | February 13, 2021 00:45 | 22h 15m | 1,546 | 5,207 |
| 3 | March 1, 2021 00:15 | March 3, 2021 20:30 | 2d 20h | 1,474 | 11K |
| 4 | April 10, 2021 18:30 | April 11, 2021 13:15 | 18h 45m | 1,420 | 6,030 |
| 5 | June 10, 2021 13:15 | June 11, 2021 02:15 | 13h | 1,031 | 1,952 |
| 6 | October 28, 2021 12:15 | October 29, 2021 09:45 | 21h 30m | 906 | 1,778 |
| 7 | July 26, 2021 19:00 | July 27, 2021 21:00 | 1d 2h | 895 | 3,779 |
| 8 | August 15, 2021 21:00 | August 16, 2021 21:15 | 1d | 890 | 4,749 |
| 9 | September 3, 2021 13:30 | September 3, 2021 21:00 | 7h 30m | 810 | 920 |
| 10 | March 28, 2021 09:15 | March 29, 2021 19:15 | 1d 10h | 641 | 5,656 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 60 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2021 | 16.2 hrs | 3.74 | 4.6 hrs | 2.41 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county