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2024 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 13.6 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 715th 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 Breathitt 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 | March 20, 2024 13:00 | March 20, 2024 19:45 | 6h 45m | 1,786 | 454 |
| 2 | November 25, 2024 18:15 | November 26, 2024 02:30 | 8h 15m | 1,780 | 3,660 |
| 3 | September 27, 2024 03:15 | October 2, 2024 17:15 | 5d 14h | 1,520 | 33K |
| 4 | November 26, 2024 07:15 | November 26, 2024 07:30 | 15m | 1,278 | 320 |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 18:45 | May 30, 2024 16:00 | 3d 21h | 1,163 | 17K |
| 6 | December 7, 2024 04:00 | December 9, 2024 13:45 | 2d 9h | 985 | 2,705 |
| 7 | December 27, 2024 18:45 | December 28, 2024 03:30 | 8h 45m | 888 | 2,707 |
| 8 | November 26, 2024 13:45 | November 26, 2024 22:00 | 8h 15m | 499 | 282 |
| 9 | April 3, 2024 13:15 | April 3, 2024 14:30 | 1h 15m | 357 | 446 |
| 10 | January 10, 2024 00:30 | January 10, 2024 04:45 | 4h 15m | 351 | 1,481 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 45 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 Breathitt 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 Power Co | 2024 | 20.9 hrs | 2.77 | 6.8 hrs | 2.17 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2024 | 14.3 hrs | 2.99 | 4.6 hrs | 2.10 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2024 | 13.6 hrs | 4.14 | 8.8 hrs | 3.73 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt 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/breathitt-county