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2021 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Russell County, KY went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1418th 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 Russell 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 | March 1, 2021 02:00 | March 1, 2021 19:45 | 17h 45m | 1,445 | 2,479 |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 11:45 | December 12, 2021 07:00 | 19h 15m | 1,391 | 5,141 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 20:00 | June 22, 2021 18:45 | 22h 45m | 1,242 | 4,231 |
| 4 | May 11, 2021 13:30 | May 11, 2021 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1,057 | 2,378 |
| 5 | July 21, 2021 11:45 | July 21, 2021 16:00 | 4h 15m | 872 | 3,706 |
| 6 | February 18, 2021 15:00 | February 20, 2021 14:30 | 1d 23h | 812 | 2,197 |
| 7 | October 28, 2021 04:00 | October 28, 2021 08:30 | 4h 30m | 770 | 2,895 |
| 8 | August 17, 2021 11:45 | August 17, 2021 17:30 | 5h 45m | 757 | 4,163 |
| 9 | February 15, 2021 21:45 | February 17, 2021 11:45 | 1d 14h | 658 | 9,665 |
| 10 | August 31, 2021 16:15 | August 31, 2021 19:00 | 2h 45m | 656 | 1,788 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 31 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Russell 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2021 | 23.7 hrs | 3.63 | 5.4 hrs | 2.57 |
| 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 ÷ 11,596 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county