Power outage history
Estill County Kentucky
14hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
29th most of 119 in Kentucky 2.1× 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 Estill's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 32 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Estill, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 4,671 | 65% | 4.5 d | 1.0 h | 182k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,112 | 29% | 4.1 d | 3.5 h | 78k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Ice storm | 1,923 | 27% | 6.8 d | 2.9 d | 66k |
| Aug 28, 2020 | No storm report | 402 | 6% | 6.6 d | 6.6 d | 63k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,726 | 24% | 3.1 d | 29 h | 46k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,931 | 27% | 2.0 d | 35 h | 41k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 2,201 | 30% | 2.1 d | 1.8 h | 22k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,135 | 43% | 43 h | 24 h | 18k |
| Mar 2, 2021 | No storm report | 442 | 6% | 48 h | 38 h | 17k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,825 | 25% | 30 h | 16 h | 15k |
| Jul 18, 2015 | No storm report | 3,122 | 43% | 3.8 h | 6.2 h | 11k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 535 | 7% | 40 h | 36 h | 11k |
| May 20, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,179 | 16% | 8.5 h | 6.8 h | 10k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,299 | 18% | 30 h | 12 min | 9.8k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,306 | 18% | 21 h | 18 h | 6.9k |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Winter storm | 369 | 5% | 37 h | 32 h | 5.9k |
| Dec 17, 2018 | No storm report | 2,104 | 29% | 4.8 h | 4.0 h | 5.8k |
| Jun 21, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,190 | 44% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 5.6k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,701 | 24% | 4.8 h | 2.5 h | 4.8k |
| May 13, 2016 | No storm report | 3,192 | 44% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 4.8k |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 578 | 8% | 31 h | 28 h | 4.7k |
| Nov 11, 2019 | No storm report | 1,468 | 20% | 3.2 h | 11 h | 4.4k |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 783 | 11% | 15 h | 14 h | 3.9k |
| Mar 26, 2022 | No storm report | 225 | 3% | 41 h | – | 3.5k |
| Aug 2, 2021 | No storm report | 906 | 13% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 3.3k |
| Feb 8, 2025 | No storm report | 3,121 | 43% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 3.1k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Windstorm | 908 | 13% | 17 h | 3.2 h | 3.0k |
| Feb 3, 2018 | No storm report | 901 | 12% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.9k |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,035 | 14% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 2.8k |
| Apr 26, 2021 | No storm report | 1,198 | 17% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 2.7k |
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 Estill from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 29%
- Tropical storm 26%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Windstorm 12%
- Ice storm 9.3%
- Winter storm 8.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Estill
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 Utilities Co | Investor Owned | 197 | 89 | 1.14 | 11.9 | 454k |
| 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 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc | Cooperative | 918 | 324 | 3.45 | 13.3 | 26k |
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.
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 7,224 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 →