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2021 Lincoln County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, KY went without power for an average of 20.6 hours, a total of 265K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 416th 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 Lincoln 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 19:30 | February 21, 2021 12:00 | 5d 16h | 5,945 | 208K |
| 2 | January 17, 2021 18:45 | January 17, 2021 22:15 | 3h 30m | 3,188 | 1,920 |
| 3 | November 4, 2021 17:00 | November 4, 2021 18:15 | 1h 15m | 1,547 | 1,315 |
| 4 | February 11, 2021 10:30 | February 13, 2021 20:45 | 2d 10h | 1,470 | 24K |
| 5 | February 15, 2021 13:00 | February 15, 2021 13:15 | 15m | 1,123 | 281 |
| 6 | October 11, 2021 14:30 | October 11, 2021 15:45 | 1h 15m | 953 | 477 |
| 7 | March 25, 2021 19:00 | March 25, 2021 19:30 | 30m | 883 | 221 |
| 8 | February 13, 2021 23:15 | February 14, 2021 05:45 | 6h 30m | 786 | 2,007 |
| 9 | March 1, 2021 00:30 | March 1, 2021 03:45 | 3h 15m | 768 | 967 |
| 10 | December 11, 2021 09:15 | December 12, 2021 23:30 | 1d 14h | 684 | 5,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 34 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 12.2 hrs | 2.60 | 1.8 hrs | 1.03 |
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 ÷ 12,841 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county