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2024 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Russell County, KY went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1222nd 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 Russell 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 | November 1, 2024 05:30 | November 1, 2024 06:45 | 1h 15m | 2,170 | 2,712 |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 13:00 | May 30, 2024 17:45 | 4d 4h | 1,811 | 39K |
| 3 | June 23, 2024 23:15 | June 24, 2024 02:15 | 3h | 1,054 | 807 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 19:15 | August 2, 2024 15:15 | 20h | 925 | 3,027 |
| 5 | February 28, 2024 13:30 | February 29, 2024 00:30 | 11h | 870 | 3,227 |
| 6 | May 8, 2024 23:45 | May 9, 2024 06:15 | 6h 30m | 698 | 1,287 |
| 7 | September 27, 2024 10:00 | September 28, 2024 16:45 | 1d 6h | 666 | 3,802 |
| 8 | June 13, 2024 13:30 | June 13, 2024 17:45 | 4h 15m | 643 | 250 |
| 9 | May 16, 2024 17:30 | May 16, 2024 18:45 | 1h 15m | 606 | 455 |
| 10 | January 13, 2024 03:15 | January 13, 2024 11:00 | 7h 45m | 586 | 2,451 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 51 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 Russell 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 |
| Taylor County Rural E C C | 2024 | 3.9 hrs | 2.11 | 2.5 hrs | 1.65 |
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 ÷ 11,596 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county