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

Power outage history

Carlisle County Kentucky

11hours

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

38th most of 119 in Kentucky 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 10, 2021 61% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.9days Dec 10, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 44% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 24 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,244 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 Carlisle'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 24 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Carlisle, hours without power per customer

CarlisleUS median countyKentucky average
0 10 20 30 ’15 ’16 6.6 ’17 11 ’18 17 ’19 2.6 ’20 24 ’21 8.5 ’22 8.6 ’23 8.2 ’24 9.8 ’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
Dec 10, 2021 No storm report 1,371 61% 2.9 d 2.9 d 46k
Jun 21, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,560 70% 40 h 21 h 19k
Jun 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,333 59% 34 h 13 h 13k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 462 21% 37 h 31 h 9.4k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 820 37% 30 h 14 h 7.5k
Mar 14, 2019 Tornadoes 2,244 100% 8.5 h 4.0 h 5.4k
Jul 12, 2025 No storm report 937 42% 7.2 h 6.5 h 5.2k
Mar 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,390 62% 5.8 h 3.8 h 4.7k
Apr 3, 2025 No storm report 845 38% 6.8 h 4.8 h 4.0k
Feb 17, 2022 Windstorm 668 30% 5.8 h 5.5 h 3.4k
May 4, 2021 No storm report 381 17% 12 h 6.0 h 3.1k
Jul 19, 2018 No storm report 901 40% 3.2 h 3.2 h 2.9k

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 +6h 90% by +8h

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 Carlisle from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 56%
  • Thunderstorms 25%
  • Windstorm 6.5%
  • Heat 4.8%
  • Tornadoes 3.6%
  • Flooding 1.7%
  • Winter storm 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Carlisle

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
West Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative 380 265 2.84 14.2 32k
Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation Cooperative 395 171 3.05 17.7 24k
Gibson Electric Members Corp Cooperative – – – 14.0 2.5k
City of Bardwell KY – – – – 1.4k

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 2,244 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 →