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2024 Harlan County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Harlan County, KY went without power for an average of 20.1 hours, a total of 276K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 502nd 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 Harlan 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 11:00 | October 3, 2024 18:00 | 6d 7h | 5,286 | 182K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 16:00 | May 31, 2024 20:30 | 5d 4h | 2,055 | 30K |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 05:15 | January 11, 2024 22:30 | 2d 17h | 917 | 8,428 |
| 4 | August 18, 2024 00:00 | August 18, 2024 10:45 | 10h 45m | 766 | 3,340 |
| 5 | January 12, 2024 15:30 | January 13, 2024 22:00 | 1d 6h | 719 | 3,815 |
| 6 | February 28, 2024 14:45 | February 29, 2024 02:30 | 11h 45m | 684 | 1,032 |
| 7 | August 2, 2024 12:30 | August 4, 2024 04:00 | 1d 15h | 595 | 5,352 |
| 8 | January 17, 2024 02:00 | January 17, 2024 17:15 | 15h 15m | 514 | 4,116 |
| 9 | March 20, 2024 14:15 | March 20, 2024 21:00 | 6h 45m | 509 | 1,411 |
| 10 | December 18, 2024 17:15 | December 18, 2024 18:30 | 1h 15m | 486 | 549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 54 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Harlan 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2024 | 19.6 hrs | 4.81 | 8.4 hrs | 3.48 |
| City of Benham | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,700 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. Harlan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harlan 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/harlan-county