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2025 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Russell County, KY went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Kentucky average 7.0 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 831st 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 Russell 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 | May 17, 2025 00:15 | May 18, 2025 21:30 | 1d 21h | 4,937 | 23K |
| 2 | November 12, 2025 16:30 | November 12, 2025 20:00 | 3h 30m | 3,163 | 1,265 |
| 3 | May 19, 2025 02:45 | May 23, 2025 02:00 | 3d 23h | 2,525 | 38K |
| 4 | April 15, 2025 04:30 | April 15, 2025 06:15 | 1h 45m | 1,818 | 2,253 |
| 5 | March 4, 2025 20:00 | March 7, 2025 01:15 | 2d 5h | 1,529 | 16K |
| 6 | December 17, 2025 22:45 | December 17, 2025 23:00 | 15m | 1,024 | 256 |
| 7 | June 23, 2025 05:15 | June 23, 2025 05:30 | 15m | 980 | 245 |
| 8 | January 13, 2025 18:15 | January 13, 2025 20:00 | 1h 45m | 797 | 208 |
| 9 | June 19, 2025 02:45 | June 19, 2025 18:45 | 16h | 747 | 2,237 |
| 10 | June 6, 2025 19:00 | June 7, 2025 08:30 | 13h 30m | 667 | 1,475 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 53 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 Russell 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/russell-county