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2023 Washington County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, KY went without power for an average of 44.5 hours, a total of 245K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 127th 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 Washington 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 16:00 | March 8, 2023 20:45 | 5d 4h | 6,505 | 182K |
| 2 | June 22, 2023 01:00 | June 22, 2023 04:30 | 3h 30m | 1,454 | 2,253 |
| 3 | June 25, 2023 23:45 | June 28, 2023 00:00 | 2d | 1,425 | 12K |
| 4 | February 11, 2023 07:15 | February 11, 2023 10:45 | 3h 30m | 1,202 | 4,207 |
| 5 | June 20, 2023 06:45 | June 20, 2023 12:15 | 5h 30m | 1,137 | 4,019 |
| 6 | November 17, 2023 19:30 | November 17, 2023 20:15 | 45m | 995 | 746 |
| 7 | May 6, 2023 09:00 | May 6, 2023 11:15 | 2h 15m | 973 | 1,971 |
| 8 | May 7, 2023 03:00 | May 7, 2023 03:15 | 15m | 973 | 243 |
| 9 | February 28, 2023 14:00 | February 28, 2023 14:30 | 30m | 844 | 421 |
| 10 | May 21, 2023 07:15 | May 21, 2023 10:45 | 3h 30m | 844 | 2,954 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 42 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 Washington 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2023 | 20.6 hrs | 2.38 | 4.2 hrs | 1.84 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 1.33 | 2.0 hrs | 1.20 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 15.1 hrs | 2.32 | 2.6 hrs | 1.32 |
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 ÷ 5,512 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county