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2023 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 163K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 591st 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 Letcher 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 | April 1, 2023 06:45 | April 5, 2023 02:15 | 3d 19h | 2,787 | 51K |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 20:15 | July 31, 2023 00:15 | 1d 4h | 2,330 | 17K |
| 3 | May 6, 2023 14:15 | May 6, 2023 19:00 | 4h 45m | 1,465 | 6,959 |
| 4 | February 16, 2023 10:00 | February 16, 2023 18:00 | 8h | 1,352 | 2,774 |
| 5 | May 16, 2023 21:15 | May 17, 2023 23:45 | 1d 2h | 1,171 | 12K |
| 6 | October 1, 2023 12:00 | October 1, 2023 13:45 | 1h 45m | 1,042 | 1,817 |
| 7 | June 7, 2023 12:45 | June 7, 2023 20:45 | 8h | 883 | 2,112 |
| 8 | July 3, 2023 03:00 | July 3, 2023 23:45 | 20h 45m | 798 | 7,037 |
| 9 | August 13, 2023 21:45 | August 14, 2023 23:15 | 1d 1h | 733 | 882 |
| 10 | October 17, 2023 13:30 | October 17, 2023 23:30 | 10h | 690 | 1,987 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 59 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2023 | 12.3 hrs | 3.58 | 5.7 hrs | 2.73 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county