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2023 Fayette County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fayette County, KY went without power for an average of 26.0 hours, a total of 4.4M customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 289th 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 Fayette 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 12:00 | March 11, 2023 01:30 | 7d 13h | 52,488 | 3.3M |
| 2 | June 15, 2023 15:30 | August 2, 2023 22:00 | 48d 6h | 32,327 | 944K |
| 3 | May 7, 2023 13:00 | May 8, 2023 07:30 | 18h 30m | 4,487 | 29K |
| 4 | October 9, 2023 12:45 | October 9, 2023 21:15 | 8h 30m | 4,421 | 1,203 |
| 5 | October 29, 2023 09:45 | October 29, 2023 16:45 | 7h | 3,266 | 2,622 |
| 6 | August 25, 2023 15:00 | August 30, 2023 22:15 | 5d 7h | 3,084 | 16K |
| 7 | February 20, 2023 20:45 | February 20, 2023 21:30 | 45m | 2,958 | 985 |
| 8 | May 26, 2023 11:45 | May 26, 2023 17:45 | 6h | 2,266 | 589 |
| 9 | May 10, 2023 01:15 | May 10, 2023 03:30 | 2h 15m | 2,230 | 2,790 |
| 10 | January 26, 2023 13:45 | February 20, 2023 16:00 | 25d 2h | 1,745 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 94 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Fayette 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2023 | 20.6 hrs | 2.38 | 4.2 hrs | 1.84 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2023 | 8.8 hrs | 2.25 | 3.2 hrs | 1.36 |
| 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 ÷ 170,657 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county