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2024 Letcher County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Letcher County, KY went without power for an average of 25.5 hours, a total of 282K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 383rd 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 Letcher 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 | April 24, 2024 22:15 | April 25, 2024 04:30 | 6h 15m | 5,066 | 26K |
| 2 | September 26, 2024 17:15 | October 3, 2024 00:15 | 6d 7h | 3,594 | 132K |
| 3 | January 12, 2024 15:15 | January 14, 2024 01:30 | 1d 10h | 1,968 | 19K |
| 4 | September 24, 2024 23:45 | September 26, 2024 16:30 | 1d 16h | 1,751 | 8,978 |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 18:45 | May 31, 2024 04:15 | 4d 9h | 965 | 35K |
| 6 | June 6, 2024 04:30 | June 6, 2024 23:00 | 18h 30m | 912 | 2,337 |
| 7 | September 17, 2024 03:15 | September 17, 2024 20:00 | 16h 45m | 842 | 1,690 |
| 8 | February 28, 2024 15:45 | March 1, 2024 03:30 | 1d 11h | 825 | 2,058 |
| 9 | May 6, 2024 21:45 | May 6, 2024 22:15 | 30m | 785 | 393 |
| 10 | April 17, 2024 13:30 | April 17, 2024 16:45 | 3h 15m | 781 | 512 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 54 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 Letcher 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2024 | 19.6 hrs | 4.81 | 8.4 hrs | 3.48 |
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 ÷ 11,069 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. Letcher County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Letcher 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/letcher-county