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

Power outage history

Floyd County Kentucky

15hours

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

24th most of 119 in Kentucky 2.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 35% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 28hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.0days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 64% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 22 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 20,057 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 Floyd'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 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Floyd, hours without power per customer

FloydUS median countyKentucky average
0 5 10 15 20 25 8.1 ’15 8.9 ’16 11 ’17 6.5 ’18 7.9 ’19 19 ’20 22 ’21 16 ’22 18 ’23 13 ’24 19 ’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
Feb 15, 2021 Ice storm 6,930 35% 6.0 d 2.1 d 261k
Apr 12, 2020 Windstorm 4,232 21% 4.9 d 26 h 238k
Mar 30, 2023 Windstorm 4,506 22% 4.1 d 48 h 124k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 4,824 24% 2.1 d 39 h 110k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,412 17% 3.1 d 2.8 d 107k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,405 17% 2.3 d 2.0 d 96k
Jun 23, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,655 18% 29 h 28 h 79k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,313 12% 3.9 d 2.3 d 78k
Feb 15, 2025 No storm report 2,885 14% 3.1 d 2.1 d 71k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,865 14% 2.3 d 2.2 d 64k
Jan 5, 2025 Winter storm 2,490 12% 2.2 d 34 h 61k
Feb 1, 2025 No storm report 973 5% 2.1 d – 39k

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 +12h 90% by +50h

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

  • No storm on record 36%
  • Windstorm 25%
  • Ice storm 14%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Winter storm 5.3%
  • Flooding 4.0%
  • Tropical storm 3.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Floyd

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
Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 1,898 1,138 5.82 14.8 12k

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 20,057 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 →