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2021 Metcalfe County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Metcalfe County, KY went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1601st 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 Metcalfe 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 | October 19, 2021 14:00 | October 19, 2021 15:30 | 1h 30m | 2,779 | 4,169 |
| 2 | April 14, 2021 15:15 | April 14, 2021 17:00 | 1h 45m | 881 | 232 |
| 3 | February 27, 2021 05:30 | February 27, 2021 07:30 | 2h | 859 | 898 |
| 4 | May 24, 2021 10:30 | May 24, 2021 11:45 | 1h 15m | 854 | 861 |
| 5 | October 20, 2021 15:15 | October 20, 2021 16:45 | 1h 30m | 849 | 850 |
| 6 | September 18, 2021 13:00 | September 18, 2021 14:30 | 1h 30m | 843 | 1,265 |
| 7 | January 15, 2021 06:45 | January 15, 2021 08:15 | 1h 30m | 818 | 974 |
| 8 | June 4, 2021 20:30 | June 4, 2021 21:45 | 1h 15m | 817 | 1,021 |
| 9 | July 19, 2021 00:15 | July 19, 2021 04:15 | 4h | 457 | 1,714 |
| 10 | July 25, 2021 12:30 | July 25, 2021 15:00 | 2h 30m | 431 | 1,078 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 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 Metcalfe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 2.98 | 3.9 hrs | 2.89 |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Taylor County Rural E C C | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.12 | 75 min | 0.77 |
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 ÷ 6,226 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. Metcalfe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Metcalfe 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/metcalfe-county