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2023 Franklin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, KY went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 271K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 809th 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 Franklin 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 20:15 | March 9, 2023 21:45 | 6d 1h | 4,545 | 216K |
| 2 | February 9, 2023 15:00 | February 10, 2023 16:30 | 1d 1h | 2,021 | 11K |
| 3 | June 26, 2023 00:15 | June 27, 2023 18:15 | 1d 18h | 1,512 | 6,904 |
| 4 | March 27, 2023 18:45 | March 27, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 1,387 | 2,071 |
| 5 | October 23, 2023 20:30 | October 23, 2023 22:45 | 2h 15m | 954 | 1,907 |
| 6 | August 25, 2023 22:15 | August 27, 2023 02:30 | 1d 4h | 762 | 4,155 |
| 7 | December 17, 2023 06:15 | December 17, 2023 11:00 | 4h 45m | 734 | 3,478 |
| 8 | February 27, 2023 21:30 | February 27, 2023 22:45 | 1h 15m | 725 | 906 |
| 9 | March 24, 2023 17:30 | March 24, 2023 18:45 | 1h 15m | 694 | 523 |
| 10 | April 1, 2023 04:15 | April 1, 2023 05:00 | 45m | 672 | 504 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 42 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Franklin 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 |
| Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY) | 2023 | 7.2 hrs | 2.06 | 3.1 hrs | 1.38 |
| City of Frankfort - (KY) | 2023 | 40 min | 0.55 | 17 min | 0.23 |
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 ÷ 25,840 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county