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2024 Powell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Powell County, KY went without power for an average of 27.3 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 354th 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 Powell 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 11:30 | September 28, 2024 23:45 | 1d 12h | 5,632 | 109K |
| 2 | August 2, 2024 13:15 | August 2, 2024 19:30 | 6h 15m | 2,924 | 3,913 |
| 3 | September 29, 2024 00:30 | September 29, 2024 00:45 | 15m | 1,792 | 448 |
| 4 | September 29, 2024 02:45 | October 4, 2024 01:30 | 4d 22h | 1,655 | 55K |
| 5 | September 1, 2024 02:15 | September 1, 2024 21:45 | 19h 30m | 1,157 | 17K |
| 6 | May 26, 2024 17:45 | May 28, 2024 11:00 | 1d 17h | 766 | 12K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | January 9, 2024 15:30 | 1h 30m | 750 | 389 |
| 8 | May 8, 2024 13:45 | May 8, 2024 21:00 | 7h 15m | 750 | 251 |
| 9 | July 29, 2024 13:45 | July 29, 2024 14:00 | 15m | 590 | 148 |
| 10 | February 22, 2024 09:45 | February 22, 2024 10:45 | 1h | 573 | 573 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 38 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 Powell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2024 | 14.3 hrs | 2.99 | 4.6 hrs | 2.10 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2024 | 21.7 hrs | 3.04 | 4.5 hrs | 1.63 |
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 ÷ 8,244 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. Powell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powell 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/powell-county