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2023 Knott County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Knott County, KY went without power for an average of 18.1 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 461st 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 Knott 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 7, 2023 18:00 | March 7, 2023 20:45 | 2h 45m | 2,426 | 717 |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 19:45 | July 31, 2023 18:45 | 1d 23h | 1,687 | 11K |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 20:15 | March 6, 2023 22:15 | 3d 2h | 1,353 | 28K |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 15:30 | April 5, 2023 16:45 | 4d 1h | 1,205 | 27K |
| 5 | February 9, 2023 15:30 | February 10, 2023 23:00 | 1d 7h | 1,155 | 2,653 |
| 6 | August 26, 2023 23:00 | August 27, 2023 21:00 | 22h | 994 | 5,438 |
| 7 | February 23, 2023 09:45 | February 23, 2023 21:30 | 11h 45m | 854 | 3,138 |
| 8 | June 8, 2023 09:45 | June 9, 2023 05:15 | 19h 30m | 548 | 1,881 |
| 9 | September 25, 2023 21:30 | September 26, 2023 01:00 | 3h 30m | 538 | 684 |
| 10 | June 6, 2023 13:00 | June 6, 2023 21:30 | 8h 30m | 502 | 1,469 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 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 Knott 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 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 21.9 hrs | 4.30 | 14.7 hrs | 3.82 |
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 ÷ 7,061 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. Knott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knott 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/knott-county