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2021 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 24.4 hours, a total of 259K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 346th 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 McCreary 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 21:00 | February 22, 2021 19:45 | 6d 22h | 5,336 | 218K |
| 2 | May 14, 2021 12:15 | May 14, 2021 15:15 | 3h | 1,803 | 5,409 |
| 3 | December 11, 2021 04:30 | December 11, 2021 08:15 | 3h 45m | 1,358 | 665 |
| 4 | October 26, 2021 04:00 | October 26, 2021 04:15 | 15m | 1,277 | 319 |
| 5 | May 4, 2021 10:00 | May 5, 2021 03:15 | 17h 15m | 1,060 | 3,553 |
| 6 | July 30, 2021 08:45 | July 30, 2021 20:15 | 11h 30m | 1,034 | 1,629 |
| 7 | June 3, 2021 19:45 | June 4, 2021 00:30 | 4h 45m | 782 | 2,533 |
| 8 | March 27, 2021 18:15 | April 2, 2021 21:15 | 6d 3h | 714 | 2,764 |
| 9 | March 1, 2021 03:00 | March 1, 2021 07:00 | 4h | 643 | 1,236 |
| 10 | June 21, 2021 20:45 | June 22, 2021 00:30 | 3h 45m | 529 | 746 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 35 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 McCreary 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2021 | 23.7 hrs | 3.63 | 5.4 hrs | 2.57 |
| 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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county