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2021 Whitley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Whitley County, KY went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 129K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1032nd 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 Whitley 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 20:45 | February 20, 2021 14:15 | 4d 17h | 5,856 | 107K |
| 2 | June 8, 2021 20:30 | June 9, 2021 00:00 | 3h 30m | 1,219 | 2,100 |
| 3 | August 15, 2021 02:00 | August 15, 2021 18:00 | 16h | 857 | 1,119 |
| 4 | July 7, 2021 19:30 | July 7, 2021 22:45 | 3h 15m | 664 | 171 |
| 5 | June 21, 2021 21:30 | June 22, 2021 03:15 | 5h 45m | 482 | 213 |
| 6 | June 12, 2021 19:30 | June 13, 2021 17:15 | 21h 45m | 417 | 1,583 |
| 7 | November 14, 2021 12:45 | November 14, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 364 | 473 |
| 8 | February 7, 2021 08:15 | February 8, 2021 00:45 | 16h 30m | 326 | 2,173 |
| 9 | August 1, 2021 14:15 | August 2, 2021 15:45 | 1d 1h | 313 | 392 |
| 10 | February 23, 2021 15:15 | February 23, 2021 16:30 | 1h 15m | 310 | 159 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Whitley 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2021 | 16.2 hrs | 3.74 | 4.6 hrs | 2.41 |
| City of Jellico | - | - | - | - | - |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,361 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. Whitley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitley 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/whitley-county