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2023 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 16.9 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 508th 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 McCreary 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 18:15 | March 10, 2023 22:30 | 7d 4h | 3,783 | 135K |
| 2 | March 13, 2023 22:45 | March 14, 2023 00:00 | 1h 15m | 1,742 | 488 |
| 3 | April 13, 2023 14:45 | April 13, 2023 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,436 | 679 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 16:00 | April 3, 2023 21:00 | 2d 5h | 1,366 | 14K |
| 5 | August 10, 2023 12:15 | August 10, 2023 23:00 | 10h 45m | 1,200 | 6,640 |
| 6 | September 4, 2023 14:30 | September 4, 2023 17:45 | 3h 15m | 1,196 | 1,283 |
| 7 | August 28, 2023 11:45 | August 28, 2023 12:00 | 15m | 840 | 210 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 07:30 | April 1, 2023 14:30 | 7h | 570 | 1,477 |
| 9 | September 6, 2023 14:30 | September 6, 2023 17:30 | 3h | 538 | 168 |
| 10 | August 17, 2023 14:45 | August 17, 2023 18:15 | 3h 30m | 529 | 929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 34 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 McCreary 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county