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2024 Mercer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mercer County, KY went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1208th 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 Mercer 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 16:45 | May 29, 2024 23:15 | 3d 6h | 2,878 | 33K |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 12:30 | September 30, 2024 15:15 | 3d 2h | 1,289 | 19K |
| 3 | May 15, 2024 06:00 | May 15, 2024 09:15 | 3h 15m | 1,097 | 1,102 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 22:30 | August 2, 2024 00:00 | 1h 30m | 1,026 | 771 |
| 5 | June 17, 2024 17:15 | June 17, 2024 19:15 | 2h | 1,021 | 1,022 |
| 6 | April 2, 2024 13:15 | April 3, 2024 20:45 | 1d 7h | 895 | 9,422 |
| 7 | June 13, 2024 18:45 | June 13, 2024 19:00 | 15m | 843 | 211 |
| 8 | January 21, 2024 14:45 | January 21, 2024 22:15 | 7h 30m | 695 | 4,167 |
| 9 | November 10, 2024 16:45 | November 11, 2024 13:15 | 20h 30m | 582 | 908 |
| 10 | June 25, 2024 23:00 | June 26, 2024 02:15 | 3h 15m | 544 | 679 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 25 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 Mercer 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2024 | 9.9 hrs | 2.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.52 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.91 | 1.9 hrs | 1.17 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.60 |
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 ÷ 11,645 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county