Power outage history
Adair County Kentucky
1.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
118th most of 119 in Kentucky 72% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Adair's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Adair, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,346 | 22% | 4.4 d | 42 h | 53k |
| May 12, 2020 | No storm report | 152 | 1% | 6.2 d | – | 22k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,278 | 21% | 40 h | 20 h | 15k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,066 | 10% | 4.2 h | 3.8 h | 3.8k |
| May 18, 2025 | No storm report | 292 | 3% | 9.0 h | – | 2.5k |
| Dec 17, 2016 | No storm report | 1,009 | 9% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 2.5k |
| Sep 26, 2017 | No storm report | 1,195 | 11% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 2.2k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,696 | 16% | 9.0 h | 3.0 h | 2.0k |
| Jan 23, 2016 | Winter storm | 173 | 2% | 10 h | – | 1.8k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 376 | 4% | 8.5 h | – | 1.7k |
| Apr 16, 2022 | No storm report | 917 | 9% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.6k |
| May 29, 2024 | No storm report | 243 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jul 7, 2016 | No storm report | 168 | 2% | 9.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Feb 10, 2019 | No storm report | 920 | 9% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 1.4k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Winter storm | 173 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 1.4k |
| May 28, 2024 | No storm report | 152 | 1% | 9.0 h | – | 1.2k |
| Apr 14, 2022 | No storm report | 331 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | No storm report | 309 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 995 |
| Feb 28, 2021 | No storm report | 125 | 1% | 7.8 h | – | 969 |
| Jan 12, 2016 | No storm report | 1,008 | 9% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 932 |
| Feb 28, 2024 | No storm report | 378 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 810 |
| Dec 18, 2016 | No storm report | 456 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 798 |
| Jun 24, 2023 | No storm report | 742 | 7% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 769 |
| Jun 8, 2025 | No storm report | 179 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 761 |
| Mar 16, 2020 | No storm report | 909 | 9% | 48 min | 1.5 h | 682 |
| Nov 16, 2023 | No storm report | 297 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 668 |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 166 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 664 |
| Jul 20, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 330 | 3% | 2.0 h | – | 616 |
| Apr 30, 2023 | No storm report | 226 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 613 |
| May 11, 2016 | No storm report | 328 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 574 |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Adair from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 41%
- Windstorm 41%
- Thunderstorms 17%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Adair
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Kentucky territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | Investor Owned | 197 | 89 | 1.14 | 11.9 | 454k |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | Cooperative | 1,368 | 314 | 2.99 | 13.6 | 65k |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 341 | 128 | 1.62 | 13.0 | 25k |
| Taylor County Rural E C C | Cooperative | 456 | 263 | 2.61 | 13.4 | 25k |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | Cooperative | 528 | 239 | 3.91 | 13.1 | 21k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 10,660 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →