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County annual report · FIPS 21169

2023 Metcalfe County, KY Power Outage Report

In 2023, customers in Metcalfe County, KY went without power for an average of 39.4 hours, a total of 245K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 157th of 2,977 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
39.4
6,226 customers
Customer-hours out
245K
Peak customers out
4,026
Outages ≥1,000 out
4
0 of 10,000+ · 257 total
Longest outage
6d 22h
began March 3, 2023
Rank in state
9th/120
157th of 2,977 US

Compared with KY, the US and 2022

Metcalfe County, KY average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2023Metcalfe County 39.4 hours, Kentucky average 14.9 hours, US average 7.1 hours, Metcalfe County, 2022 6.4 hoursMetcalfe CountyMetcalfe County39.4hKentucky averageKentucky average14.9hUS averageUS average7.1hMetcalfe County, 2022Metcalfe County, 20226.4h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2023; last bar is this county in 2022.

Month by month

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Metcalfe County, KY customer-hours without power by month, 2023Jan 1,446, Feb 116, Mar 123K, Apr 3,556, May 1,831, Jun 99K, Jul 12K, Aug 2,968, Sep 443, Oct 157, Nov 323, Dec 91050k100k150k1,446Jan116Feb123KMar3,556Apr1,831May99KJun12KJul2,968Aug443Sep157Oct323Nov91Dec
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Customer-hours; March was the worst month.

Metcalfe County year over year

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Metcalfe County, KY: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 2.5h; 2016: 13.2h; 2017: 0.9h; 2018: 1.4h, coverage 78%; 2019: 3.5h, coverage 92%; 2020: 5.1h, coverage 92%; 2021: 3.8h, coverage 92%; 2022: 6.4h, coverage 94%; 2023: 39.4h; 2024: 6.0h; 2025: 7.5h0102030400%50%100%2.5h201513.2h20160.9h20171.4h20183.5h20195.1h20203.8h20216.4h202239.4h20236.0h20247.5h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Metcalfe County, 2023

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1March 3, 2023 20:00March 10, 2023 18:306d 22h4,026123K
2June 26, 2023 04:00June 29, 2023 21:003d 17h3,84398K
3May 13, 2023 18:00May 13, 2023 18:4545m1,4871,113
4April 1, 2023 14:00April 2, 2023 01:3011h 30m1,0643,312
5July 2, 2023 23:30July 3, 2023 20:0020h 30m8943,630
6June 30, 2023 20:15July 1, 2023 05:008h 45m8662,506
7January 19, 2023 08:45January 19, 2023 11:002h 15m849658
8November 27, 2023 17:00November 27, 2023 17:3030m841215
9June 20, 2023 00:30June 20, 2023 01:451h 15m534623
10July 2, 2023 06:30July 2, 2023 12:306h5341,271

Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Metcalfe County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN)202312.4 hrs4.015.7 hrs3.21
Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY)202341.8 hrs3.719.0 hrs1.81
Taylor County Rural E C C202314.7 hrs1.972.0 hrs1.20

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 ÷ 6,226 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. Metcalfe County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Metcalfe 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/metcalfe-county

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