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2023 Carter County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Carter County, KY went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 126K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 858th 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 Carter 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 21:30 | March 6, 2023 20:15 | 2d 22h | 3,569 | 41K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 09:15 | March 27, 2023 16:00 | 2d 6h | 1,775 | 15K |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 11:30 | April 3, 2023 15:30 | 2d 4h | 1,391 | 15K |
| 4 | January 22, 2023 13:00 | January 22, 2023 18:15 | 5h 15m | 1,329 | 4,357 |
| 5 | July 28, 2023 17:45 | July 30, 2023 14:30 | 1d 20h | 1,220 | 8,355 |
| 6 | April 16, 2023 17:15 | April 17, 2023 06:30 | 13h 15m | 978 | 1,599 |
| 7 | December 18, 2023 13:15 | December 19, 2023 04:00 | 14h 45m | 882 | 4,509 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 01:45 | April 1, 2023 05:00 | 3h 15m | 867 | 2,523 |
| 9 | June 26, 2023 02:45 | June 27, 2023 07:45 | 1d 5h | 702 | 5,401 |
| 10 | July 15, 2023 20:15 | July 16, 2023 02:00 | 5h 45m | 600 | 1,053 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 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 Carter 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 |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 8.8 hrs | 2.93 | 4.9 hrs | 2.16 |
| City of Olive Hill - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,835 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. Carter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carter 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/carter-county