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2022 Whitley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Whitley County, KY went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 180K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 747th 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 Whitley 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 | January 16, 2022 20:15 | January 21, 2022 14:45 | 4d 18h | 3,272 | 140K |
| 2 | September 21, 2022 19:00 | September 21, 2022 22:30 | 3h 30m | 1,710 | 3,311 |
| 3 | March 30, 2022 21:15 | April 1, 2022 23:30 | 2d 2h | 1,090 | 6,182 |
| 4 | August 22, 2022 05:45 | August 22, 2022 07:30 | 1h 45m | 976 | 978 |
| 5 | February 25, 2022 14:30 | February 25, 2022 16:15 | 1h 45m | 971 | 1,474 |
| 6 | November 9, 2022 20:30 | November 9, 2022 21:00 | 30m | 799 | 201 |
| 7 | June 26, 2022 20:15 | June 27, 2022 05:00 | 8h 45m | 731 | 946 |
| 8 | October 12, 2022 18:30 | October 12, 2022 19:15 | 45m | 688 | 363 |
| 9 | March 21, 2022 12:45 | March 21, 2022 15:45 | 3h | 622 | 501 |
| 10 | April 12, 2022 18:30 | April 12, 2022 21:15 | 2h 45m | 527 | 277 |
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 Whitley 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 |
| City of Jellico | - | - | - | - | - |
| Corbin City Utilities 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 ÷ 18,361 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. Whitley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitley 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/whitley-county