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2023 Martin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Martin County, KY went without power for an average of 27.3 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 273rd 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 Martin 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 | August 15, 2023 06:00 | August 15, 2023 21:45 | 15h 45m | 4,432 | 9,698 |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 15:30 | April 4, 2023 22:15 | 3d 6h | 3,519 | 61K |
| 3 | August 26, 2023 16:00 | August 27, 2023 00:30 | 8h 30m | 2,614 | 6,473 |
| 4 | February 9, 2023 20:00 | February 10, 2023 22:30 | 1d 2h | 2,605 | 4,717 |
| 5 | July 15, 2023 12:15 | July 16, 2023 03:15 | 15h | 1,213 | 3,474 |
| 6 | May 18, 2023 12:45 | May 19, 2023 17:00 | 1d 4h | 977 | 503 |
| 7 | March 3, 2023 19:30 | March 7, 2023 19:30 | 4d | 893 | 28K |
| 8 | September 22, 2023 23:00 | September 23, 2023 06:30 | 7h 30m | 732 | 1,124 |
| 9 | October 11, 2023 15:15 | October 11, 2023 23:15 | 8h | 714 | 4,886 |
| 10 | May 28, 2023 14:45 | May 29, 2023 07:30 | 16h 45m | 669 | 3,710 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 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 Martin 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 ÷ 6,097 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county