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2023 Whitley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Whitley County, KY went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 100th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1325th 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 Whitley 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 17:00 | March 7, 2023 01:30 | 3d 8h | 2,748 | 60K |
| 2 | September 10, 2023 14:00 | September 10, 2023 15:15 | 1h 15m | 2,309 | 1,557 |
| 3 | August 25, 2023 22:15 | August 26, 2023 09:15 | 11h | 1,759 | 1,204 |
| 4 | March 15, 2023 12:45 | March 15, 2023 18:30 | 5h 45m | 1,287 | 2,265 |
| 5 | April 1, 2023 16:15 | April 3, 2023 18:30 | 2d 2h | 1,243 | 14K |
| 6 | June 25, 2023 16:00 | June 25, 2023 20:00 | 4h | 1,068 | 376 |
| 7 | April 6, 2023 15:45 | April 6, 2023 17:00 | 1h 15m | 685 | 856 |
| 8 | February 12, 2023 15:15 | February 12, 2023 17:30 | 2h 15m | 683 | 1,028 |
| 9 | May 18, 2023 20:00 | May 18, 2023 20:45 | 45m | 674 | 258 |
| 10 | May 13, 2023 17:00 | May 13, 2023 19:15 | 2h 15m | 648 | 1,294 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 49 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 Whitley 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2023 | 12.3 hrs | 3.58 | 5.7 hrs | 2.73 |
| City of Jellico | - | - | - | - | - |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,361 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. Whitley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitley 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/whitley-county