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2024 Knox County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Knox County, KY went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 134K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1036th 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 Knox 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 18:00 | May 31, 2024 00:45 | 4d 6h | 3,263 | 74K |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 00:15 | April 3, 2024 05:00 | 4h 45m | 1,430 | 3,076 |
| 3 | September 27, 2024 06:30 | September 30, 2024 16:00 | 3d 9h | 1,392 | 13K |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 23:45 | August 4, 2024 02:15 | 2d 2h | 1,158 | 4,803 |
| 5 | June 25, 2024 13:45 | June 25, 2024 18:30 | 4h 45m | 925 | 855 |
| 6 | June 17, 2024 23:45 | June 18, 2024 02:00 | 2h 15m | 821 | 1,030 |
| 7 | March 9, 2024 19:30 | March 10, 2024 00:15 | 4h 45m | 819 | 1,177 |
| 8 | April 11, 2024 14:15 | April 11, 2024 16:00 | 1h 45m | 701 | 231 |
| 9 | August 15, 2024 12:30 | August 15, 2024 16:30 | 4h | 691 | 1,368 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 17:15 | January 10, 2024 16:00 | 22h 45m | 690 | 2,152 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 60 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Knox 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2024 | 19.6 hrs | 4.81 | 8.4 hrs | 3.48 |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barbourville Utility 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,272 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county