Power outage history
Greenup County Kentucky
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
33rd most of 119 in Kentucky 1.9× 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 Greenup'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 41 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Greenup, 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 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 5,897 | 32% | 12.9 d | 10.8 d | 674k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 9,077 | 50% | 4.0 d | 2.2 d | 231k |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,328 | 24% | 2.4 d | 43 h | 60k |
| May 22, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,956 | 38% | 30 h | 22 h | 52k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,302 | 24% | 19 h | 17 h | 44k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,854 | 16% | 44 h | 21 h | 34k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 5,220 | 29% | 25 h | 4.8 h | 32k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,013 | 11% | 37 h | 29 h | 26k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,792 | 15% | 27 h | 21 h | 20k |
| Jun 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,049 | 17% | 19 h | 12 h | 18k |
| Oct 16, 2024 | No storm report | 5,370 | 30% | 5.2 h | 1.8 h | 18k |
| Jun 24, 2017 | Tropical Storm Cindy | 1,119 | 6% | 19 h | 19 h | 13k |
| Feb 28, 2024 | No storm report | 2,613 | 14% | 5.2 h | 4.8 h | 13k |
| Feb 22, 2019 | No storm report | 1,256 | 7% | 11 h | 11 h | 11k |
| Oct 7, 2021 | No storm report | 2,238 | 12% | 14 h | 14 h | 11k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,606 | 31% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 11k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 2,589 | 14% | 9.0 h | 5.8 h | 10k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 1,021 | 6% | 18 h | 19 h | 9.1k |
| Apr 10, 2015 | No storm report | 3,801 | 21% | 11 h | 1.8 h | 9.0k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Windstorm | 1,626 | 9% | 11 h | 3.5 h | 8.4k |
| Jul 13, 2015 | No storm report | 510 | 3% | 20 h | – | 7.0k |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,382 | 8% | 16 h | 17 h | 7.0k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 507 | 3% | 22 h | – | 6.7k |
| May 26, 2015 | No storm report | 1,448 | 8% | 6.8 h | 6.5 h | 6.2k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | No storm report | 1,636 | 9% | 7.5 h | 7.0 h | 6.0k |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,405 | 8% | 10 h | 2.8 h | 5.9k |
| Apr 24, 2017 | No storm report | 6,021 | 33% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 5.9k |
| Jul 3, 2024 | No storm report | 736 | 4% | 11 h | – | 5.6k |
| Dec 18, 2023 | No storm report | 643 | 4% | 10 h | – | 5.5k |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,840 | 10% | 5.2 h | 4.0 h | 4.8k |
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.
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 Greenup from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 44%
- No storm on record 18%
- Thunderstorms 16%
- Tropical storm 15%
- Windstorm 6.6%
- Flooding 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Greenup
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 |
| 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
- Carter 28 h
- Lewis 26 h
- Boyd 18 h
- Lawrence, OH 15 h
- Greenup (this county) 13 h
- Scioto, OH 6.6 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 18,179 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 →