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2023 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 275K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1059th 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 Laurel 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 17:30 | March 8, 2023 13:30 | 4d 20h | 7,360 | 183K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 12:45 | April 3, 2023 23:15 | 2d 10h | 3,563 | 21K |
| 3 | August 12, 2023 17:30 | August 13, 2023 05:45 | 12h 15m | 1,760 | 4,563 |
| 4 | June 30, 2023 09:00 | June 30, 2023 22:30 | 13h 30m | 1,472 | 3,965 |
| 5 | January 3, 2023 17:15 | January 3, 2023 20:15 | 3h | 1,340 | 614 |
| 6 | February 9, 2023 13:00 | February 11, 2023 01:15 | 1d 12h | 1,300 | 3,451 |
| 7 | March 25, 2023 15:15 | March 26, 2023 01:15 | 10h | 1,154 | 2,554 |
| 8 | October 27, 2023 19:00 | October 28, 2023 01:00 | 6h | 1,064 | 1,917 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 10:45 | July 18, 2023 16:30 | 5h 45m | 985 | 319 |
| 10 | April 13, 2023 19:30 | April 14, 2023 00:45 | 5h 15m | 934 | 982 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Laurel 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2023 | 24.3 hrs | 3.63 | 4.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2023 | 28.6 hrs | 2.95 | 4.2 hrs | 1.79 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2023 | 12.3 hrs | 3.58 | 5.7 hrs | 2.73 |
| 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 ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel 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/laurel-county