County annual report · FIPS 21095
2022 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1028th 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 Harlan 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 | October 13, 2022 13:15 | October 13, 2022 15:15 | 2h | 2,254 | 1,118 |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 18:00 | June 19, 2022 23:15 | 2d 5h | 1,820 | 29K |
| 3 | April 8, 2022 14:00 | April 8, 2022 15:30 | 1h 30m | 1,221 | 475 |
| 4 | August 5, 2022 21:00 | August 6, 2022 18:00 | 21h | 1,063 | 4,797 |
| 5 | June 27, 2022 17:15 | June 27, 2022 20:15 | 3h | 768 | 205 |
| 6 | February 7, 2022 13:45 | March 15, 2022 13:00 | 35d 23h | 740 | 8,093 |
| 7 | December 23, 2022 23:15 | December 24, 2022 10:15 | 11h | 642 | 1,574 |
| 8 | May 6, 2022 18:00 | May 7, 2022 11:00 | 17h | 592 | 4,736 |
| 9 | June 26, 2022 10:30 | June 26, 2022 11:30 | 1h | 554 | 454 |
| 10 | July 8, 2022 09:00 | July 9, 2022 05:30 | 20h 30m | 511 | 2,215 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 47 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 Harlan 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 Utilities Co | 2022 | 4.2 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2022 | 5.5 hrs | 4.22 | 4.1 hrs | 3.64 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2022 | 17.5 hrs | 4.40 | 4.8 hrs | 2.70 |
| City of Benham | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,700 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. Harlan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harlan 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/harlan-county