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2024 Carter County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Carter County, KY went without power for an average of 33.1 hours, a total of 425K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 299th 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 Carter 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 | September 27, 2024 12:30 | October 3, 2024 18:00 | 6d 5h | 5,888 | 302K |
| 2 | April 2, 2024 13:30 | April 8, 2024 11:30 | 5d 22h | 3,008 | 65K |
| 3 | April 19, 2024 17:45 | April 19, 2024 19:00 | 1h 15m | 2,934 | 1,570 |
| 4 | January 25, 2024 00:00 | January 25, 2024 03:15 | 3h 15m | 1,340 | 3,543 |
| 5 | February 28, 2024 12:00 | February 29, 2024 15:15 | 1d 3h | 1,054 | 6,429 |
| 6 | December 4, 2024 20:15 | December 4, 2024 22:15 | 2h | 990 | 255 |
| 7 | December 22, 2024 11:45 | December 22, 2024 16:00 | 4h 15m | 987 | 3,461 |
| 8 | May 8, 2024 17:00 | May 9, 2024 00:15 | 7h 15m | 823 | 1,107 |
| 9 | August 17, 2024 17:45 | August 18, 2024 04:45 | 11h | 556 | 638 |
| 10 | April 13, 2024 16:00 | April 13, 2024 21:00 | 5h | 454 | 1,980 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 48 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 Carter 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 |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2024 | 39.5 hrs | 4.82 | 8.2 hrs | 3.38 |
| City of Olive Hill - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,835 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. Carter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carter 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/carter-county