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2021 Meade County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Meade County, KY went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1401st 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 Meade 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 | December 11, 2021 02:15 | December 12, 2021 15:30 | 1d 13h | 2,972 | 33K |
| 2 | February 27, 2021 04:00 | March 1, 2021 13:00 | 2d 9h | 900 | 3,381 |
| 3 | May 26, 2021 04:00 | May 26, 2021 12:00 | 8h | 614 | 1,796 |
| 4 | November 15, 2021 16:45 | November 15, 2021 20:30 | 3h 45m | 564 | 182 |
| 5 | February 11, 2021 02:00 | February 11, 2021 21:15 | 19h 15m | 561 | 2,850 |
| 6 | February 12, 2021 00:30 | February 12, 2021 12:45 | 12h 15m | 557 | 727 |
| 7 | June 2, 2021 08:45 | June 2, 2021 18:00 | 9h 15m | 557 | 770 |
| 8 | July 6, 2021 14:45 | July 6, 2021 20:45 | 6h | 557 | 160 |
| 9 | March 17, 2021 18:15 | March 17, 2021 18:45 | 30m | 551 | 205 |
| 10 | February 24, 2021 20:15 | February 25, 2021 00:15 | 4h | 550 | 692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 29 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.95 | 79 min | 0.89 |
| Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2021 | 42 min | 0.41 | 29 min | 0.30 |
| Meade County Rural E C C | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.45 | 87 min | 0.89 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,076 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. Meade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county