County annual report · FIPS 21147
2025 McCreary County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in McCreary County, KY went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (Kentucky average 7.0 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 609th 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 McCreary 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 | February 16, 2025 03:30 | February 24, 2025 23:45 | 8d 20h | 2,820 | 28K |
| 2 | September 24, 2025 15:00 | September 24, 2025 16:45 | 1h 45m | 2,809 | 1,605 |
| 3 | October 19, 2025 09:15 | October 20, 2025 21:45 | 1d 12h | 2,227 | 19K |
| 4 | May 21, 2025 01:00 | May 22, 2025 17:30 | 1d 16h | 1,900 | 25K |
| 5 | March 5, 2025 04:15 | March 6, 2025 18:30 | 1d 14h | 1,519 | 16K |
| 6 | November 12, 2025 19:45 | November 12, 2025 20:00 | 15m | 1,335 | 334 |
| 7 | December 19, 2025 03:30 | December 19, 2025 05:30 | 2h | 861 | 1,296 |
| 8 | May 13, 2025 12:30 | May 13, 2025 22:30 | 10h | 856 | 1,549 |
| 9 | January 18, 2025 01:45 | January 18, 2025 02:30 | 45m | 850 | 638 |
| 10 | January 26, 2025 22:00 | January 27, 2025 01:30 | 3h 30m | 685 | 853 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 43 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 McCreary 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 10,586 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. McCreary County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCreary 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/mccreary-county