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

Power outage history

Trigg County Kentucky

23hours

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

11th most of 119 in Kentucky 3.5× the national median

Worst outage on record May 26, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 23h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 11.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.3days May 26, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,398 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 Trigg'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Trigg, hours without power per customer

TriggUS median countyKentucky average
0 20 40 60 80 100 ’16 13 ’17 7.3 ’18 12 ’19 14 ’20 11 ’21 7.9 ’22 32 ’23 74 ’24 28 ’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
May 26, 2024 Tornadoes 6,398 100% 5.3 d 4.4 d 429k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 4,677 73% 3.1 d 2.6 d 155k
May 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 5,298 83% 2.7 d 40 h 68k
Jun 21, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,299 36% 45 h 29 h 37k
Feb 21, 2025 No storm report 6,398 100% 8.8 h 7.0 h 32k
Jan 11, 2020 Tornadoes 6,398 100% 14 h 4.5 h 23k
Jul 12, 2020 No storm report 3,252 51% 12 h 7.2 h 16k
Jan 23, 2017 No storm report 6,398 100% 2.2 h 1.8 h 12k
Feb 28, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,577 25% 20 h 10 h 11k
Sep 10, 2017 No storm report 2,309 36% 4.8 h 4.8 h 11k
Oct 12, 2021 No storm report 2,288 36% 4.8 h 5.8 h 11k
Dec 10, 2021 No storm report 6,398 100% 7.0 h 2.0 h 10k

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 +6h 90% by +8h

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

  • Tornadoes 40%
  • No storm on record 30%
  • Windstorm 15%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Winter storm 2.0%
  • Flooding 0.9%
  • Heat 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Trigg

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
Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop Cooperative 986 246 4.32 13.9 41k

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 6,398 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 →