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2021 McCracken County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in McCracken County, KY went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1792nd 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 McCracken 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 | September 17, 2021 15:45 | September 17, 2021 19:45 | 4h | 9,743 | 3,054 |
| 2 | May 3, 2021 04:15 | May 3, 2021 07:00 | 2h 45m | 6,463 | 4,495 |
| 3 | April 10, 2021 15:30 | April 11, 2021 01:30 | 10h | 2,022 | 2,441 |
| 4 | April 20, 2021 18:45 | April 20, 2021 22:30 | 3h 45m | 1,976 | 522 |
| 5 | April 19, 2021 14:45 | April 19, 2021 19:45 | 5h | 1,815 | 1,904 |
| 6 | December 11, 2021 03:30 | December 12, 2021 00:15 | 20h 45m | 1,294 | 3,177 |
| 7 | September 13, 2021 18:00 | September 13, 2021 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,214 | 989 |
| 8 | August 14, 2021 00:00 | August 16, 2021 12:15 | 2d 12h | 1,210 | 47K |
| 9 | May 4, 2021 08:15 | May 4, 2021 15:15 | 7h | 1,047 | 1,119 |
| 10 | October 14, 2021 13:15 | October 14, 2021 17:30 | 4h 15m | 999 | 3,697 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 66 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 McCracken 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 Purchase Energy Corporation | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.42 | 2.2 hrs | 1.42 |
| City of Paducah - (KY) | 2021 | 27 min | 0.92 | 27 min | 0.92 |
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 ÷ 36,761 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. McCracken County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCracken 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/mccracken-county