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2023 McCracken County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McCracken County, KY went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 118th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 2089th 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 McCracken 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 23, 2023 06:15 | August 23, 2023 08:45 | 2h 30m | 6,016 | 6,008 |
| 2 | November 23, 2023 11:45 | November 23, 2023 14:45 | 3h | 3,669 | 5,123 |
| 3 | April 17, 2023 14:15 | April 17, 2023 15:45 | 1h 30m | 2,668 | 2,686 |
| 4 | July 29, 2023 23:45 | July 30, 2023 16:45 | 17h | 2,577 | 10K |
| 5 | May 9, 2023 04:30 | May 9, 2023 11:45 | 7h 15m | 2,396 | 1,935 |
| 6 | March 8, 2023 16:45 | March 8, 2023 17:30 | 45m | 2,337 | 905 |
| 7 | December 31, 2023 14:00 | January 1, 2024 00:00 | 10h | 2,275 | 1,557 |
| 8 | June 21, 2023 20:15 | June 21, 2023 20:45 | 30m | 2,048 | 1,024 |
| 9 | July 19, 2023 07:15 | July 19, 2023 23:45 | 16h 30m | 2,017 | 6,844 |
| 10 | August 5, 2023 10:30 | August 5, 2023 18:15 | 7h 45m | 1,985 | 1,816 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 74 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 McCracken 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 Purchase Energy Corporation | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 2.66 | 2.6 hrs | 1.66 |
| City of Paducah - (KY) | 2023 | 62 min | 1.13 | 62 min | 1.13 |
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 ÷ 36,761 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. McCracken County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCracken 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/mccracken-county