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2023 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1244th 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 Harlan 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 | February 18, 2023 01:45 | February 18, 2023 05:45 | 4h | 2,434 | 4,544 |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 15:45 | April 3, 2023 02:00 | 1d 10h | 1,869 | 22K |
| 3 | August 3, 2023 06:45 | August 3, 2023 09:15 | 2h 30m | 1,293 | 1,621 |
| 4 | July 1, 2023 19:00 | July 2, 2023 20:45 | 1d 1h | 1,150 | 3,697 |
| 5 | May 16, 2023 21:30 | May 18, 2023 01:15 | 1d 3h | 982 | 6,277 |
| 6 | May 23, 2023 08:00 | May 23, 2023 10:15 | 2h 15m | 977 | 1,237 |
| 7 | September 10, 2023 04:15 | September 10, 2023 06:15 | 2h | 976 | 251 |
| 8 | July 29, 2023 19:15 | July 30, 2023 18:15 | 23h | 933 | 6,232 |
| 9 | July 2, 2023 22:00 | July 4, 2023 10:30 | 1d 12h | 897 | 4,868 |
| 10 | August 14, 2023 15:30 | August 14, 2023 19:00 | 3h 30m | 572 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 51 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 Harlan 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2023 | 12.4 hrs | 4.01 | 5.7 hrs | 3.21 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2023 | 12.3 hrs | 3.58 | 5.7 hrs | 2.73 |
| City of Benham | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,700 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. Harlan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harlan 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/harlan-county