Power outage history
Meade County Kentucky
4.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
95th most of 119 in Kentucky 27% below 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 Meade's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Meade, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 6,043 | 33% | 3.1 d | 2.0 d | 147k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,072 | 23% | 48 h | 20 h | 82k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 2,972 | 16% | 17 h | 15 h | 32k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,084 | 12% | 34 h | 12 h | 31k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Tornadoes | 3,260 | 18% | 40 h | 13 h | 28k |
| Feb 1, 2020 | No storm report | 571 | 3% | 47 h | – | 27k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,256 | 12% | 23 h | 18 h | 24k |
| Jan 1, 2021 | No storm report | 345 | 2% | 2.4 d | – | 19k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 1,400 | 8% | 36 h | 12 min | 16k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 900 | 5% | 18 h | – | 10k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | No storm report | 929 | 5% | 11 h | 30 min | 8.4k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,659 | 9% | 15 h | 13 h | 7.7k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,653 | 9% | 27 h | 24 h | 7.5k |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,359 | 8% | 11 h | 5.0 h | 7.4k |
| Jul 2, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,303 | 7% | 14 h | 13 h | 7.2k |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Tornadoes | 1,527 | 8% | 4.5 h | 4.0 h | 3.3k |
| Jun 21, 2022 | No storm report | 1,371 | 8% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 3.0k |
| Mar 9, 2024 | No storm report | 513 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Ice storm | 561 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 2.8k |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,681 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 2.6k |
| Nov 30, 2023 | No storm report | 1,434 | 8% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.5k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 568 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 2.5k |
| May 18, 2022 | No storm report | 1,401 | 8% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 2.2k |
| Nov 6, 2017 | No storm report | 1,404 | 8% | 3.5 h | 1.5 h | 2.0k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | No storm report | 782 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 1.9k |
| May 26, 2021 | No storm report | 614 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 1.8k |
| Dec 18, 2024 | No storm report | 1,421 | 8% | 1.2 h | 5.5 h | 1.8k |
| Jul 31, 2024 | No storm report | 254 | 1% | 6.5 h | – | 1.6k |
| Oct 19, 2025 | No storm report | 283 | 2% | 6.0 h | – | 1.5k |
| Feb 15, 2018 | No storm report | 560 | 3% | 3.5 h | – | 1.5k |
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 Meade from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 29%
- Windstorm 27%
- Thunderstorms 27%
- Winter storm 5.9%
- Tornadoes 5.8%
- Ice storm 3.6%
- Tropical storm 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Meade
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | Investor Owned | 228 | 94 | 1.18 | 12.4 | 388k |
| Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 199 | 51 | 1.33 | 12.8 | 37k |
| Meade County Rural E C C | Cooperative | 446 | 129 | 2.60 | 15.3 | 30k |
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
- Crawford, IN 15 h
- Harrison, IN 6.6 h
- Meade (this county) 4.8 h
- Breckinridge 4.2 h
- Hardin 2.7 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 18,076 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 →