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2022 Mercer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mercer County, KY went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 105th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 2133rd 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 Mercer 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 26, 2022 10:45 | July 26, 2022 16:00 | 5h 15m | 2,594 | 3,581 |
| 2 | July 18, 2022 04:15 | July 18, 2022 06:00 | 1h 45m | 1,022 | 1,789 |
| 3 | June 16, 2022 09:30 | June 16, 2022 09:45 | 15m | 1,004 | 251 |
| 4 | December 18, 2022 20:45 | December 19, 2022 01:00 | 4h 15m | 744 | 1,395 |
| 5 | June 30, 2022 16:15 | June 30, 2022 19:00 | 2h 45m | 698 | 527 |
| 6 | September 7, 2022 00:15 | September 7, 2022 01:45 | 1h 30m | 696 | 352 |
| 7 | August 6, 2022 21:00 | August 7, 2022 00:45 | 3h 45m | 687 | 176 |
| 8 | March 31, 2022 03:15 | March 31, 2022 09:30 | 6h 15m | 597 | 931 |
| 9 | February 17, 2022 22:30 | February 18, 2022 20:00 | 21h 30m | 537 | 3,186 |
| 10 | November 27, 2022 14:45 | November 27, 2022 19:15 | 4h 30m | 472 | 957 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 32 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 Mercer 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2022 | 4.3 hrs | 1.93 | 3.2 hrs | 1.68 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2022 | 3.1 hrs | 1.98 | 2.0 hrs | 1.35 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.99 | 2.4 hrs | 1.58 |
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 ÷ 11,645 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county