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2022 Knox County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Knox County, KY went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1214th 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 Knox 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 | June 17, 2022 17:15 | June 19, 2022 16:00 | 1d 22h | 2,521 | 18K |
| 2 | March 30, 2022 21:45 | April 1, 2022 15:30 | 1d 17h | 1,675 | 9,439 |
| 3 | January 16, 2022 23:45 | January 20, 2022 22:30 | 3d 22h | 1,182 | 33K |
| 4 | April 28, 2022 15:15 | April 28, 2022 16:00 | 45m | 975 | 559 |
| 5 | February 11, 2022 16:30 | February 11, 2022 18:30 | 2h | 894 | 269 |
| 6 | June 13, 2022 10:45 | June 14, 2022 06:30 | 19h 45m | 835 | 1,054 |
| 7 | February 22, 2022 14:45 | February 23, 2022 02:00 | 11h 15m | 710 | 1,955 |
| 8 | May 7, 2022 22:15 | May 8, 2022 05:00 | 6h 45m | 695 | 245 |
| 9 | July 27, 2022 10:00 | July 27, 2022 20:00 | 10h | 689 | 1,175 |
| 10 | May 6, 2022 19:45 | May 6, 2022 23:00 | 3h 15m | 529 | 663 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 44 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 Knox 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2022 | 17.5 hrs | 4.40 | 4.8 hrs | 2.70 |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barbourville Utility 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 94% of Kentucky's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,272 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county