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2023 Butler County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Butler County, KY went without power for an average of 51.8 hours, a total of 353K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 99th 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 Butler 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 01:15 | 2d 21h | 6,572 | 44K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 18:45 | March 10, 2023 22:00 | 7d 3h | 6,113 | 281K |
| 3 | March 28, 2023 21:15 | March 29, 2023 02:30 | 5h 15m | 3,141 | 1,578 |
| 4 | October 7, 2023 00:30 | October 7, 2023 00:45 | 15m | 3,020 | 755 |
| 5 | June 29, 2023 15:30 | June 29, 2023 21:00 | 5h 30m | 1,231 | 4,398 |
| 6 | August 22, 2023 11:45 | August 22, 2023 20:00 | 8h 15m | 985 | 1,507 |
| 7 | June 30, 2023 16:45 | July 1, 2023 22:30 | 1d 5h | 976 | 1,677 |
| 8 | May 8, 2023 03:15 | May 8, 2023 05:00 | 1h 45m | 973 | 1,460 |
| 9 | August 17, 2023 13:00 | August 17, 2023 18:30 | 5h 30m | 958 | 248 |
| 10 | June 11, 2023 21:45 | June 12, 2023 00:30 | 2h 45m | 923 | 951 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | 2021 | 10.4 hrs | 2.63 | 2.7 hrs | 1.66 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 17.2 hrs | 3.12 | 2.7 hrs | 1.60 |
| 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 ÷ 6,824 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. Butler County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county