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2023 Lee County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, KY went without power for an average of 51.3 hours, a total of 203K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 100th 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 Lee 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 20:45 | March 9, 2023 00:00 | 5d 3h | 3,249 | 128K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 16:00 | April 3, 2023 23:45 | 2d 7h | 1,620 | 21K |
| 3 | July 18, 2023 18:45 | July 20, 2023 12:45 | 1d 18h | 975 | 15K |
| 4 | June 26, 2023 03:45 | June 28, 2023 02:00 | 1d 22h | 930 | 13K |
| 5 | July 2, 2023 23:00 | July 4, 2023 00:45 | 1d 1h | 686 | 2,946 |
| 6 | April 21, 2023 20:45 | April 21, 2023 23:15 | 2h 30m | 648 | 1,618 |
| 7 | February 18, 2023 07:30 | February 18, 2023 07:45 | 15m | 636 | 159 |
| 8 | April 4, 2023 13:15 | April 4, 2023 15:30 | 2h 15m | 466 | 234 |
| 9 | October 17, 2023 13:45 | October 17, 2023 15:30 | 1h 45m | 415 | 726 |
| 10 | March 25, 2023 17:15 | March 27, 2023 00:00 | 1d 6h | 408 | 5,177 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Lee 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 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,961 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county