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2021 Owsley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Owsley County, KY went without power for an average of 63.5 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 131st 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 Owsley 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 21:30 | February 26, 2021 03:15 | 10d 5h | 2,443 | 135K |
| 2 | March 1, 2021 01:30 | March 1, 2021 21:45 | 20h 15m | 719 | 2,799 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 19:45 | June 22, 2021 23:00 | 1d 3h | 466 | 1,426 |
| 4 | March 18, 2021 16:00 | March 18, 2021 17:30 | 1h 30m | 395 | 105 |
| 5 | March 23, 2021 18:15 | March 23, 2021 18:30 | 15m | 393 | 98 |
| 6 | January 19, 2021 16:00 | January 19, 2021 20:45 | 4h 45m | 304 | 678 |
| 7 | May 29, 2021 14:45 | May 29, 2021 16:15 | 1h 30m | 253 | 380 |
| 8 | July 26, 2021 14:15 | July 26, 2021 16:30 | 2h 15m | 252 | 567 |
| 9 | August 31, 2021 23:15 | September 1, 2021 13:30 | 14h 15m | 252 | 3,173 |
| 10 | September 22, 2021 21:15 | September 22, 2021 23:45 | 2h 30m | 252 | 505 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 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 Owsley 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 45.5 hrs | 3.66 | 4.0 hrs | 2.03 |
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 ÷ 2,420 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. Owsley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Owsley 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/owsley-county