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2024 Barren County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Barren County, KY went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1530th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barren County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 26, 2024 15:45 | May 29, 2024 21:00 | 3d 5h | 6,510 | 97K |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 10:30 | September 28, 2024 00:00 | 13h 30m | 685 | 887 |
| 3 | May 25, 2024 08:00 | May 25, 2024 17:30 | 9h 30m | 671 | 2,514 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 21:00 | August 2, 2024 01:00 | 4h | 563 | 789 |
| 5 | February 18, 2024 11:15 | February 18, 2024 16:30 | 5h 15m | 560 | 1,286 |
| 6 | May 21, 2024 19:30 | May 21, 2024 20:30 | 1h | 552 | 491 |
| 7 | July 21, 2024 00:30 | July 21, 2024 02:30 | 2h | 490 | 976 |
| 8 | September 26, 2024 11:15 | September 26, 2024 18:30 | 7h 15m | 488 | 1,223 |
| 9 | April 17, 2024 16:30 | April 17, 2024 19:30 | 3h | 475 | 1,107 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 05:00 | January 9, 2024 17:00 | 12h | 438 | 689 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 42 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Barren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 21.9 hrs | 1.97 | 1.9 hrs | 1.03 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2024 | 6.4 hrs | 3.96 | 4.0 hrs | 3.19 |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) | 2024 | 6.6 hrs | 1.99 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2024 | 7.6 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.72 |
| City of Glasgow - (KY) | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 2.52 | - | - |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,665 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. Barren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barren County, KY annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/kentucky/barren-county