Power outage history
Elliott County Kentucky
28hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
6th most of 119 in Kentucky 4.3× 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 Elliott's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Elliott, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2021 | Ice storm | 3,545 | 81% | 19.2 d | 10.3 d | 642k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,820 | 41% | 5.1 d | 3.0 d | 68k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,312 | 30% | 2.2 d | 27 h | 18k |
| Jul 1, 2021 | No storm report | 516 | 12% | 21 h | 28 h | 8.3k |
| Feb 24, 2023 | No storm report | 911 | 21% | 9.0 h | 8.8 h | 5.9k |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Winter storm | 573 | 13% | 19 h | 7.0 h | 5.3k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 1,073 | 24% | 19 h | 4.2 h | 4.5k |
| Feb 17, 2024 | No storm report | 605 | 14% | 5.8 h | 5.2 h | 3.1k |
| Apr 2, 2024 | No storm report | 673 | 15% | 26 h | 6.2 h | 3.1k |
| Jun 8, 2024 | No storm report | 410 | 9% | 8.5 h | 7.2 h | 2.8k |
| Feb 11, 2025 | No storm report | 434 | 10% | 4.5 h | 9.8 h | 1.9k |
| Dec 7, 2022 | No storm report | 409 | 9% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 1.9k |
| Jul 28, 2024 | No storm report | 518 | 12% | 7.2 h | 2.8 h | 1.8k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 172 | 4% | 18 h | – | 1.7k |
| Apr 3, 2025 | No storm report | 487 | 11% | 6.2 h | 5.8 h | 1.5k |
| May 29, 2023 | No storm report | 306 | 7% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 1.5k |
| Jul 15, 2022 | No storm report | 567 | 13% | 2.5 h | 5.5 h | 1.4k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 428 | 10% | 3.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.4k |
| Nov 22, 2021 | No storm report | 300 | 7% | 4.5 h | 48 min | 1.3k |
| Dec 6, 2019 | No storm report | 169 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jan 31, 2022 | No storm report | 345 | 8% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 1.2k |
| Aug 26, 2021 | No storm report | 686 | 16% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | No storm report | 510 | 12% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 1.1k |
| Nov 14, 2024 | No storm report | 60 | 1% | 19 h | – | 1.1k |
| Oct 4, 2023 | No storm report | 324 | 7% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 1.1k |
| May 21, 2025 | No storm report | 326 | 7% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 1.1k |
| Jul 9, 2025 | No storm report | 108 | 2% | 15 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | No storm report | 126 | 3% | 9.0 h | – | 1.1k |
| Nov 1, 2023 | No storm report | 217 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 1.0k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | No storm report | 459 | 10% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 1.0k |
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 Elliott from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 77%
- No storm on record 11%
- Tropical storm 8.2%
- Thunderstorms 2.4%
- Winter storm 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Elliott
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 Power Co | Investor Owned | 911 | 376 | 2.62 | 15.9 | 130k |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | Cooperative | 386 | 235 | 2.58 | 15.2 | 17k |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 2,391 | 2,391 | 16.88 | 16.0 | 14k |
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 4,390 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 →