Power Out Map
– 0% of Caldwell out 0 customers out in Kentucky

Power outage history

Caldwell County Kentucky

8.1hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

62nd most of 119 in Kentucky 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record May 26, 2024 52% of customers out · 90% back in 3.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.1h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.8days Dec 10, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 22 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,933 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Caldwell's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Caldwell, hours without power per customer

CaldwellUS median countyKentucky average
0 5 10 15 20 25 0.7 ’15 2.0 ’16 2.3 ’17 2.0 ’18 3.0 ’19 2.7 ’20 16 ’21 8.5 ’22 3.6 ’23 22 ’24 7.3 ’25 KY 7.7 US 6.6

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
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,094 52% 4.2 d 3.4 d 115k
Dec 10, 2021 Tornadoes 2,603 44% 5.8 d 5.5 d 84k
Feb 3, 2022 Ice storm 1,646 28% 2.4 d 48 h 31k
Jan 5, 2025 Winter storm 1,213 20% 2.1 d 29 h 17k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 641 11% 2.0 d 48 h 11k
Nov 1, 2025 No storm report 2,305 39% 1.8 h 1.8 h 4.0k
Nov 16, 2025 No storm report 2,300 39% 1.8 h 1.8 h 4.0k
Dec 22, 2022 Winter storm 2,266 38% 1.8 h 4.8 h 4.0k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 784 13% 13 h 8.8 h 3.9k
Jul 20, 2020 Heat 1,409 24% 3.0 h 7.8 h 3.8k
Apr 7, 2024 No storm report 2,288 39% 1.2 h 11 h 2.9k
Jun 23, 2019 No storm report 886 15% 7.5 h 6.0 h 2.8k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Caldwell from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 33%
  • Tornadoes 25%
  • No storm on record 20%
  • Ice storm 8.7%
  • Winter storm 6.6%
  • Windstorm 3.8%
  • Heat 2.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Caldwell

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
Kenergy Corp Cooperative 691 155 3.28 16.3 48k
City of Princeton KY 5 5 0.10 14.9 32k

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

Across Kentucky

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 5,933 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 →