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2022 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 63.7 hours, a total of 705K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 53rd 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 Letcher 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 28, 2022 03:15 | August 6, 2022 00:15 | 8d 21h | 8,417 | 565K |
| 2 | July 21, 2022 06:15 | July 22, 2022 23:30 | 1d 17h | 1,774 | 18K |
| 3 | June 17, 2022 17:45 | June 19, 2022 02:15 | 1d 8h | 1,748 | 13K |
| 4 | June 13, 2022 12:45 | June 13, 2022 21:30 | 8h 45m | 1,407 | 742 |
| 5 | July 6, 2022 18:15 | July 8, 2022 02:30 | 1d 8h | 1,125 | 19K |
| 6 | August 25, 2022 13:00 | August 27, 2022 00:30 | 1d 11h | 1,041 | 4,114 |
| 7 | June 26, 2022 20:00 | June 27, 2022 03:30 | 7h 30m | 915 | 1,743 |
| 8 | April 30, 2022 00:00 | April 30, 2022 04:30 | 4h 30m | 908 | 3,666 |
| 9 | January 6, 2022 19:45 | January 6, 2022 20:30 | 45m | 868 | 651 |
| 10 | July 26, 2022 16:45 | July 27, 2022 22:00 | 1d 5h | 687 | 4,536 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 61 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2022 | 17.5 hrs | 4.40 | 4.8 hrs | 2.70 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county