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2025 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 343K customer-hours (Kentucky average 7.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 835th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Laurel County, 2025
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 12, 2025 19:45 | November 12, 2025 21:00 | 1h 15m | 10,904 | 2,729 |
| 2 | May 16, 2025 17:15 | May 23, 2025 23:30 | 7d 6h | 8,840 | 222K |
| 3 | October 15, 2025 15:45 | October 16, 2025 00:00 | 8h 15m | 5,503 | 14K |
| 4 | August 13, 2025 23:00 | August 14, 2025 11:00 | 12h | 2,351 | 3,071 |
| 5 | March 16, 2025 05:30 | March 18, 2025 20:00 | 2d 14h | 2,114 | 17K |
| 6 | May 27, 2025 22:00 | May 28, 2025 06:15 | 8h 15m | 1,887 | 2,439 |
| 7 | February 16, 2025 04:15 | February 18, 2025 15:15 | 2d 11h | 1,564 | 9,695 |
| 8 | November 5, 2025 19:45 | November 6, 2025 00:45 | 5h | 1,027 | 628 |
| 9 | April 6, 2025 22:45 | April 7, 2025 01:30 | 2h 45m | 984 | 507 |
| 10 | October 28, 2025 01:30 | October 28, 2025 01:45 | 15m | 978 | 245 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 68 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Laurel County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2024 | 14.3 hrs | 2.99 | 4.6 hrs | 2.10 |
| 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 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel County, KY annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/kentucky/laurel-county