Power outage history
Christian County Kentucky
5.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
78th most of 119 in Kentucky close to 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 Christian's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Christian, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2024 | Tornadoes | 9,254 | 25% | 4.4 d | 21 h | 417k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,854 | 30% | 2.6 d | 2.0 d | 310k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Tornadoes | 4,424 | 12% | 4.5 d | 3.7 d | 215k |
| Oct 26, 2019 | Tropical Storm Olga | 7,399 | 20% | 2.3 d | 22 h | 77k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,146 | 9% | 41 h | 39 h | 52k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Ice storm | 1,611 | 4% | 31 h | – | 33k |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,764 | 10% | 17 h | 15 h | 23k |
| Dec 27, 2025 | No storm report | 5,058 | 14% | 4.0 h | 6.2 h | 20k |
| Jul 23, 2018 | No storm report | 6,000 | 17% | 7.0 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Dec 24, 2022 | Winter storm | 8,315 | 23% | 5.2 h | 1.0 h | 15k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Tornadoes | 2,369 | 7% | 14 h | 12 h | 14k |
| Apr 27, 2025 | No storm report | 3,960 | 11% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 12k |
| Oct 2, 2018 | No storm report | 1,948 | 5% | 7.8 h | 12 h | 12k |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Flooding | 829 | 2% | 13 h | – | 11k |
| Feb 24, 2018 | Tornadoes | 2,447 | 7% | 9.5 h | 8.8 h | 9.2k |
| Jun 21, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,160 | 3% | 9.8 h | – | 8.8k |
| Oct 20, 2024 | No storm report | 2,542 | 7% | 3.2 h | 9.0 h | 8.3k |
| Sep 1, 2017 | Hurricane Harvey | 1,366 | 4% | 9.2 h | – | 7.2k |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 5,173 | 14% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 7.0k |
| Jul 25, 2018 | No storm report | 1,574 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 6.9k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | No storm report | 2,579 | 7% | 2.5 h | 4.2 h | 6.1k |
| Aug 20, 2018 | No storm report | 4,665 | 13% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 5.8k |
| Apr 5, 2025 | No storm report | 1,439 | 4% | 4.0 h | – | 5.6k |
| Aug 2, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,336 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 5.2k |
| Sep 22, 2018 | No storm report | 785 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 5.1k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,818 | 5% | 5.0 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Heat | 1,257 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 5.0k |
| Oct 30, 2024 | No storm report | 4,971 | 14% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 5.0k |
| Feb 21, 2025 | No storm report | 1,404 | 4% | 3.5 h | – | 4.9k |
| May 4, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 996 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 4.9k |
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.
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 Christian from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 45%
- Thunderstorms 29%
- No storm on record 15%
- Tropical storm 5.4%
- Ice storm 2.3%
- Winter storm 2.1%
- Heat 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Christian
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 |
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | Cooperative | 986 | 246 | 4.32 | 13.9 | 41k |
| City of Hopkinsville | Municipal | – | – | – | 13.3 | 9.8k |
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
- Trigg 23 h
- Todd 20 h
- Stewart, TN 14 h
- Muhlenberg 13 h
- Hopkins 9.8 h
- Caldwell 8.1 h
- Christian (this county) 5.8 h
- Montgomery, TN 3.5 h
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 36,367 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 →