County annual report · FIPS 21147
2024 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 764th 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 McCreary 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 14:15 | May 31, 2024 12:30 | 4d 22h | 3,129 | 90K |
| 2 | October 17, 2024 20:00 | October 18, 2024 02:00 | 6h | 1,632 | 981 |
| 3 | July 18, 2024 17:30 | July 18, 2024 18:30 | 1h | 1,211 | 308 |
| 4 | April 11, 2024 18:00 | April 11, 2024 19:00 | 1h | 843 | 843 |
| 5 | September 27, 2024 13:30 | September 29, 2024 15:15 | 2d 1h | 808 | 6,026 |
| 6 | June 1, 2024 23:45 | June 4, 2024 15:45 | 2d 16h | 688 | 14K |
| 7 | October 2, 2024 06:15 | October 2, 2024 09:15 | 3h | 462 | 1,076 |
| 8 | October 2, 2024 16:15 | October 2, 2024 16:30 | 15m | 462 | 116 |
| 9 | June 5, 2024 18:15 | June 5, 2024 19:00 | 45m | 454 | 122 |
| 10 | April 2, 2024 23:30 | April 3, 2024 08:30 | 9h | 392 | 1,925 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 33 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 McCreary 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2024 | 12.1 hrs | 2.71 | 5.0 hrs | 2.16 |
| 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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county