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2023 Meade County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Meade County, KY went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 193K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 799th 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 Meade 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 19:30 | March 8, 2023 13:30 | 4d 18h | 6,043 | 148K |
| 2 | April 5, 2023 20:15 | April 7, 2023 01:00 | 1d 4h | 1,527 | 3,756 |
| 3 | July 11, 2023 00:30 | July 11, 2023 00:45 | 15m | 1,440 | 360 |
| 4 | November 29, 2023 21:00 | November 30, 2023 12:45 | 15h 45m | 1,434 | 2,554 |
| 5 | July 2, 2023 19:00 | July 4, 2023 19:15 | 2d | 1,303 | 8,223 |
| 6 | November 4, 2023 20:30 | November 5, 2023 00:15 | 3h 45m | 831 | 1,274 |
| 7 | May 1, 2023 22:15 | May 1, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 740 | 556 |
| 8 | May 3, 2023 12:30 | May 3, 2023 12:45 | 15m | 639 | 160 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 04:15 | April 2, 2023 01:00 | 20h 45m | 568 | 3,212 |
| 10 | July 5, 2023 17:45 | July 5, 2023 20:30 | 2h 45m | 521 | 517 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | 2023 | 19.4 hrs | 1.47 | 69 min | 0.70 |
| Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 12.2 hrs | 1.91 | 60 min | 0.83 |
| Meade County Rural E C C | 2023 | 10.6 hrs | 1.92 | 1.6 hrs | 0.97 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,076 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. Meade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county