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2023 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 535th 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 Breathitt 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 | March 3, 2023 18:45 | March 6, 2023 19:30 | 3d | 2,804 | 31K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 06:45 | April 4, 2023 20:15 | 3d 13h | 1,406 | 20K |
| 3 | February 9, 2023 18:45 | February 11, 2023 01:00 | 1d 6h | 1,041 | 16K |
| 4 | July 3, 2023 02:00 | July 4, 2023 15:15 | 1d 13h | 714 | 4,856 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 19:15 | July 31, 2023 15:15 | 1d 20h | 682 | 3,988 |
| 6 | August 1, 2023 23:30 | August 2, 2023 00:15 | 45m | 669 | 289 |
| 7 | February 16, 2023 17:15 | February 18, 2023 20:30 | 2d 3h | 651 | 8,113 |
| 8 | July 6, 2023 19:00 | July 7, 2023 01:15 | 6h 15m | 574 | 1,290 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 11:45 | July 20, 2023 02:30 | 1d 14h | 509 | 5,640 |
| 10 | March 30, 2023 12:15 | March 30, 2023 20:45 | 8h 30m | 504 | 2,651 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 37 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 Breathitt 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 Power Co | 2023 | 12.0 hrs | 2.35 | 5.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2023 | 24.3 hrs | 3.63 | 4.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 21.9 hrs | 4.30 | 14.7 hrs | 3.82 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt 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/breathitt-county