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2023 Barren County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Barren County, KY went without power for an average of 25.2 hours, a total of 622K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 299th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barren County, 2023
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 26, 2023 03:45 | June 29, 2023 21:00 | 3d 17h | 11,038 | 229K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 16:30 | March 10, 2023 17:45 | 7d 1h | 10,368 | 341K |
| 3 | June 30, 2023 22:15 | July 2, 2023 01:45 | 1d 3h | 4,677 | 15K |
| 4 | April 27, 2023 05:00 | April 27, 2023 07:00 | 2h | 1,674 | 3,348 |
| 5 | March 24, 2023 14:15 | March 24, 2023 22:45 | 8h 30m | 805 | 795 |
| 6 | May 7, 2023 17:30 | May 7, 2023 22:15 | 4h 45m | 725 | 1,912 |
| 7 | July 2, 2023 22:45 | July 4, 2023 00:30 | 1d 1h | 671 | 4,526 |
| 8 | March 18, 2023 21:45 | March 18, 2023 23:00 | 1h 15m | 658 | 823 |
| 9 | June 19, 2023 09:45 | June 19, 2023 11:15 | 1h 30m | 610 | 883 |
| 10 | October 26, 2023 12:00 | October 26, 2023 15:00 | 3h | 558 | 871 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 38 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Barren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 10.0 hrs | 1.42 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2023 | 12.4 hrs | 4.01 | 5.7 hrs | 3.21 |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) | 2023 | 41.8 hrs | 3.71 | 9.0 hrs | 1.81 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 17.2 hrs | 3.12 | 2.7 hrs | 1.60 |
| City of Glasgow - (KY) | 2023 | 4.8 hrs | 2.83 | - | - |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Kentucky's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,665 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. Barren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barren County, KY annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/kentucky/barren-county