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2022 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1092nd 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 McCreary 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 12, 2022 22:15 | July 13, 2022 20:30 | 22h 15m | 2,561 | 5,954 |
| 2 | January 16, 2022 22:00 | January 20, 2022 16:15 | 3d 18h | 1,385 | 33K |
| 3 | March 30, 2022 20:00 | March 31, 2022 19:45 | 23h 45m | 921 | 3,220 |
| 4 | December 12, 2022 19:15 | December 12, 2022 20:45 | 1h 30m | 894 | 893 |
| 5 | September 21, 2022 10:30 | September 21, 2022 22:30 | 12h | 842 | 5,347 |
| 6 | February 3, 2022 22:15 | February 4, 2022 13:15 | 15h | 821 | 2,095 |
| 7 | November 30, 2022 13:30 | November 30, 2022 17:00 | 3h 30m | 730 | 396 |
| 8 | June 30, 2022 00:45 | June 30, 2022 02:45 | 2h | 728 | 659 |
| 9 | December 27, 2022 16:30 | December 27, 2022 17:00 | 30m | 704 | 352 |
| 10 | November 5, 2022 20:30 | November 5, 2022 23:00 | 2h 30m | 509 | 524 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 37 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 McCreary 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2022 | 7.6 hrs | 3.24 | 7.6 hrs | 3.24 |
| 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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county