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2021 Pulaski County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pulaski County, KY went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 683K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 528th 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 Pulaski 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 00:45 | 6d 3h | 14,885 | 495K |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 07:15 | December 12, 2021 23:15 | 1d 16h | 4,465 | 24K |
| 3 | June 12, 2021 23:00 | June 15, 2021 01:45 | 2d 2h | 4,322 | 48K |
| 4 | June 21, 2021 13:30 | June 22, 2021 02:30 | 13h | 3,141 | 7,079 |
| 5 | January 29, 2021 14:00 | January 29, 2021 19:30 | 5h 30m | 2,315 | 1,657 |
| 6 | July 2, 2021 20:15 | July 2, 2021 23:15 | 3h | 2,013 | 2,034 |
| 7 | May 20, 2021 12:15 | May 20, 2021 20:30 | 8h 15m | 1,581 | 12K |
| 8 | June 27, 2021 18:00 | June 28, 2021 01:15 | 7h 15m | 1,481 | 1,420 |
| 9 | July 30, 2021 07:30 | July 31, 2021 02:00 | 18h 30m | 1,327 | 6,686 |
| 10 | December 16, 2021 15:00 | December 16, 2021 17:15 | 2h 15m | 1,264 | 330 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 110 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Pulaski 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2021 | 45.5 hrs | 3.66 | 4.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2021 | 23.7 hrs | 3.63 | 5.4 hrs | 2.57 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 42,258 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. Pulaski County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pulaski 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/pulaski-county