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2021 Marshall County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Marshall County, KY went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1376th 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 Marshall 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 | August 14, 2021 10:15 | August 14, 2021 14:45 | 4h 30m | 6,116 | 16K |
| 2 | August 9, 2021 02:45 | August 9, 2021 10:00 | 7h 15m | 6,112 | 15K |
| 3 | August 15, 2021 15:45 | August 15, 2021 19:15 | 3h 30m | 6,103 | 4,584 |
| 4 | May 4, 2021 09:30 | May 5, 2021 01:45 | 16h 15m | 2,387 | 15K |
| 5 | June 2, 2021 02:00 | June 2, 2021 04:00 | 2h | 1,991 | 3,482 |
| 6 | August 15, 2021 12:45 | August 15, 2021 13:00 | 15m | 1,985 | 496 |
| 7 | December 6, 2021 07:30 | December 7, 2021 00:00 | 16h 30m | 1,759 | 5,490 |
| 8 | July 14, 2021 05:00 | July 14, 2021 06:00 | 1h | 1,537 | 1,537 |
| 9 | July 19, 2021 03:15 | July 19, 2021 04:45 | 1h 30m | 1,141 | 1,712 |
| 10 | May 13, 2021 12:15 | May 13, 2021 14:45 | 2h 30m | 947 | 478 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 35 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Marshall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Kentucky Rural E C C | 2021 | 52.2 hrs | 3.48 | 2.4 hrs | 1.60 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.42 | 2.2 hrs | 1.42 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Benton - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,536 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. Marshall County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marshall 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/marshall-county