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2022 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 52.1 hours, a total of 412K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 71st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Breathitt County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 27, 2022 11:15 | August 12, 2022 01:00 | 15d 13h | 3,078 | 327K |
| 2 | July 21, 2022 04:45 | July 23, 2022 02:30 | 1d 21h | 1,449 | 16K |
| 3 | August 16, 2022 11:45 | August 16, 2022 20:45 | 9h | 1,061 | 2,933 |
| 4 | July 5, 2022 20:00 | July 7, 2022 20:30 | 2d | 926 | 4,345 |
| 5 | July 11, 2022 14:15 | July 11, 2022 20:15 | 6h | 825 | 1,868 |
| 6 | May 30, 2022 16:15 | May 30, 2022 22:30 | 6h 15m | 602 | 3,167 |
| 7 | February 23, 2022 08:30 | February 23, 2022 23:30 | 15h | 600 | 6,710 |
| 8 | June 17, 2022 17:30 | June 20, 2022 23:00 | 3d 5h | 559 | 4,364 |
| 9 | November 20, 2022 14:00 | November 21, 2022 03:30 | 13h 30m | 525 | 2,309 |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 09:45 | March 12, 2022 21:30 | 11h 45m | 506 | 1,470 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 35 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 Breathitt County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 28.5 hrs | 2.84 | 8.2 hrs | 2.29 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2022 | 10.9 hrs | 3.08 | 5.0 hrs | 2.49 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2022 | 21.2 hrs | 5.25 | 10.6 hrs | 4.28 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 94% of Kentucky's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt County, KY annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/kentucky/breathitt-county