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

Power outage history

Cumberland County Kentucky

6.4hours

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

73rd most of 119 in Kentucky close to the national median

Worst outage on record May 17, 2025 82% of customers out · 90% back in 11 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.4h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 42hours May 27, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 33% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 12 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,483 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 Cumberland'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Cumberland, hours without power per customer

CumberlandUS median countyKentucky average
0 5 10 15 6.5 ’15 1.7 ’16 1.3 ’17 1.4 ’18 2.8 ’19 11 ’20 3.0 ’21 5.0 ’22 6.3 ’23 9.8 ’24 12 ’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 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,854 82% 15 h 11 h 18k
May 27, 2024 Tornadoes 1,395 40% 42 h 27 h 15k
Oct 18, 2020 No storm report 3,483 100% 4.0 h 13 h 14k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,204 35% 12 h 8.0 h 13k
Oct 25, 2020 No storm report 3,483 100% 3.0 h 4.0 h 10k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 1,949 56% 26 h 16 h 8.7k
Nov 1, 2020 No storm report 3,483 100% 2.5 h 2.5 h 8.1k
Feb 6, 2025 Thunderstorms 935 27% 6.0 h 14 h 5.4k
Jan 26, 2015 No storm report 411 12% 11 h 11 h 4.4k
Jan 21, 2025 No storm report 3,483 100% 1.0 h 48 min 3.2k
Dec 18, 2025 No storm report 740 21% 4.0 h 2.5 h 2.9k
Jul 6, 2022 No storm report 1,703 49% 2.2 h 2.0 h 2.6k

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 +4h 90% by +6h

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

  • No storm on record 68%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Tornadoes 9.3%
  • Windstorm 5.3%
  • Winter storm 0.9%
  • Flooding 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Cumberland

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
South Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative 1,368 314 2.99 13.6 65k
Taylor County Rural E C C Cooperative 456 263 2.61 13.4 25k
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) Cooperative 528 239 3.91 13.1 21k

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 3,483 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 →