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2024 Whitley County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Whitley County, KY went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1435th 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 Whitley 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 | January 30, 2024 13:45 | January 30, 2024 19:15 | 5h 30m | 3,937 | 4,701 |
| 2 | December 11, 2024 21:30 | December 12, 2024 09:00 | 11h 30m | 2,689 | 2,090 |
| 3 | May 26, 2024 17:45 | May 31, 2024 20:45 | 5d 3h | 2,595 | 43K |
| 4 | June 5, 2024 08:45 | June 5, 2024 22:00 | 13h 15m | 2,239 | 1,678 |
| 5 | January 30, 2024 11:15 | January 30, 2024 12:15 | 1h | 2,202 | 1,449 |
| 6 | September 27, 2024 10:00 | September 28, 2024 23:30 | 1d 13h | 2,131 | 10K |
| 7 | May 1, 2024 12:00 | May 1, 2024 14:00 | 2h | 1,996 | 510 |
| 8 | August 1, 2024 23:45 | August 2, 2024 17:00 | 17h 15m | 1,673 | 2,558 |
| 9 | September 21, 2024 00:45 | September 21, 2024 01:30 | 45m | 1,209 | 446 |
| 10 | September 24, 2024 22:45 | September 25, 2024 19:30 | 20h 45m | 1,162 | 2,869 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 54 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Whitley 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2024 | 19.6 hrs | 4.81 | 8.4 hrs | 3.48 |
| City of Jellico | - | - | - | - | - |
| Corbin City Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,361 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. Whitley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitley 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/whitley-county