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2023 Powell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Powell County, KY went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1055th 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 Powell 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 | November 27, 2023 01:45 | November 27, 2023 05:30 | 3h 45m | 5,544 | 12K |
| 2 | March 13, 2023 15:00 | March 13, 2023 17:45 | 2h 45m | 4,654 | 1,173 |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 21:45 | March 7, 2023 19:30 | 3d 21h | 1,315 | 24K |
| 4 | October 10, 2023 12:30 | October 10, 2023 21:15 | 8h 45m | 706 | 1,000 |
| 5 | July 2, 2023 21:15 | July 3, 2023 23:00 | 1d 1h | 618 | 3,256 |
| 6 | June 26, 2023 05:00 | June 26, 2023 16:45 | 11h 45m | 611 | 1,654 |
| 7 | July 2, 2023 10:30 | July 2, 2023 15:15 | 4h 45m | 610 | 413 |
| 8 | February 9, 2023 20:00 | February 23, 2023 13:30 | 13d 17h | 575 | 3,421 |
| 9 | July 5, 2023 17:00 | July 5, 2023 21:30 | 4h 30m | 460 | 309 |
| 10 | October 17, 2023 13:00 | October 17, 2023 22:00 | 9h | 448 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 20 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Powell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2023 | 24.3 hrs | 3.63 | 4.7 hrs | 2.07 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2023 | 8.8 hrs | 2.25 | 3.2 hrs | 1.36 |
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 ÷ 8,244 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. Powell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powell 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/powell-county