Power outage history
Jackson County Kentucky
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
22nd most of 119 in Kentucky 2.4× 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 Jackson'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 2.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Jackson, 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 15, 2021 | Ice storm | 5,910 | 83% | 9.1 d | 5.7 d | 406k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,742 | 39% | 4.2 d | 2.9 d | 73k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,742 | 25% | 2.5 d | 2.3 d | 41k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,165 | 16% | 2.6 d | 17 h | 17k |
| Apr 11, 2023 | No storm report | 6,894 | 97% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 15k |
| May 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,422 | 20% | 19 h | 13 h | 14k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,323 | 19% | 23 h | 12 h | 11k |
| Dec 25, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,547 | 22% | 6.8 h | 1.8 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 1,135 | 16% | 25 h | 21 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 301 | 4% | 25 h | – | 6.7k |
| May 20, 2025 | No storm report | 412 | 6% | 19 h | 27 h | 6.4k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 978 | 14% | 23 h | 16 h | 5.5k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 766 | 11% | 16 h | 12 h | 3.8k |
| Jul 2, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 928 | 13% | 13 h | 9.2 h | 3.4k |
| Feb 28, 2021 | Flooding | 1,412 | 20% | 9.2 h | 1.0 h | 3.3k |
| May 29, 2024 | No storm report | 512 | 7% | 4.5 h | 7.5 h | 2.2k |
| May 19, 2025 | No storm report | 279 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 2.2k |
| Dec 31, 2023 | No storm report | 1,070 | 15% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 2.1k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 439 | 6% | 8.5 h | 6.2 h | 1.9k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 319 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jul 5, 2022 | No storm report | 525 | 7% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 1.8k |
| Jul 30, 2021 | Flooding | 558 | 8% | 6.8 h | 5.2 h | 1.7k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | No storm report | 576 | 8% | 2.8 h | 3.8 h | 1.6k |
| Oct 15, 2021 | No storm report | 491 | 7% | 3.5 h | 13 h | 1.5k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 368 | 5% | 7.8 h | 7.5 h | 1.5k |
| Jan 4, 2023 | No storm report | 948 | 13% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 1.5k |
| Jan 17, 2024 | No storm report | 469 | 7% | 6.5 h | 15 h | 1.5k |
| Dec 9, 2019 | No storm report | 461 | 6% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.5k |
| Jun 13, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 404 | 6% | 5.0 h | 3.0 h | 1.4k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 529 | 7% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 1.3k |
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 Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 57%
- No storm on record 16%
- Windstorm 11%
- Tropical storm 5.8%
- Winter storm 5.0%
- Thunderstorms 4.6%
- Flooding 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Jackson
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | Cooperative | 426 | 255 | 1.91 | 12.6 | 62k |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp | Cooperative | 915 | 334 | 3.40 | 14.8 | 50k |
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 7,104 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 →