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2021 Powell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Powell County, KY went without power for an average of 17.6 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 483rd 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 Powell 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 28, 2021 13:15 | March 3, 2021 14:30 | 3d 1h | 2,407 | 27K |
| 2 | February 28, 2021 09:15 | February 28, 2021 11:45 | 2h 30m | 2,307 | 2,895 |
| 3 | February 11, 2021 05:30 | February 22, 2021 02:45 | 10d 21h | 2,004 | 93K |
| 4 | November 30, 2021 16:15 | December 9, 2021 17:00 | 9d | 733 | 826 |
| 5 | February 22, 2021 08:30 | February 22, 2021 09:15 | 45m | 714 | 534 |
| 6 | June 12, 2021 19:30 | June 13, 2021 22:00 | 1d 2h | 699 | 750 |
| 7 | May 27, 2021 13:00 | June 8, 2021 19:00 | 12d 6h | 668 | 1,584 |
| 8 | July 16, 2021 17:15 | July 16, 2021 19:45 | 2h 30m | 435 | 397 |
| 9 | October 29, 2021 15:00 | October 29, 2021 19:30 | 4h 30m | 424 | 1,900 |
| 10 | December 11, 2021 09:30 | December 16, 2021 17:45 | 5d 8h | 318 | 1,555 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Powell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 45.5 hrs | 3.66 | 4.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2021 | 43.8 hrs | 3.83 | 3.7 hrs | 1.82 |
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 ÷ 8,244 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. Powell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powell 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/powell-county