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2021 Martin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Martin County, KY went without power for an average of 46.0 hours, a total of 280K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 196th 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 Martin 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 01:45 | February 26, 2021 23:30 | 11d 21h | 2,959 | 111K |
| 2 | September 22, 2021 14:00 | September 22, 2021 23:30 | 9h 30m | 1,907 | 5,813 |
| 3 | February 28, 2021 09:15 | March 4, 2021 20:30 | 4d 11h | 1,757 | 103K |
| 4 | August 17, 2021 23:15 | August 24, 2021 19:00 | 6d 19h | 1,608 | 5,903 |
| 5 | June 11, 2021 23:30 | June 12, 2021 02:30 | 3h | 1,600 | 2,713 |
| 6 | April 10, 2021 21:30 | April 11, 2021 07:30 | 10h | 687 | 4,988 |
| 7 | April 15, 2021 13:15 | April 15, 2021 21:30 | 8h 15m | 681 | 2,910 |
| 8 | July 10, 2021 17:30 | July 11, 2021 16:45 | 23h 15m | 620 | 5,757 |
| 9 | March 25, 2021 17:30 | March 25, 2021 20:30 | 3h | 587 | 884 |
| 10 | August 3, 2021 21:45 | August 4, 2021 16:15 | 18h 30m | 493 | 3,646 |
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 Martin 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 |
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 ÷ 6,097 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county