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

Power outage history

Fleming County Kentucky

12hours

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

35th most of 119 in Kentucky 1.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 51% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 12h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.3days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 27 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,871 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Fleming's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 27 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fleming, hours without power per customer

FlemingUS median countyKentucky average
0 10 20 30 40 1.2 ’15 ’16 1.1 ’17 ’18 4.9 ’19 7.6 ’20 15 ’21 27 ’22 7.8 ’23 13 ’24 7.5 ’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
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 3,987 51% 3.3 d 2.1 d 70k
Mar 12, 2022 Winter storm 1,277 16% 45 h 45 h 58k
Sep 4, 2022 No storm report 957 12% 2.3 d 31 h 49k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 1,705 22% 48 h 39 h 31k
Mar 26, 2021 No storm report 499 6% 2.6 d 22 h 30k
Feb 11, 2021 Ice storm 2,848 36% 41 h 13 h 23k
Aug 15, 2021 No storm report 872 11% 24 h 30 h 21k
Apr 8, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,201 41% 16 h 8.8 h 18k
Jul 16, 2022 No storm report 479 6% 35 h 35 h 17k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,982 25% 26 h 10 h 16k
Apr 26, 2022 No storm report 2,809 36% 6.2 h 3.2 h 12k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 2,526 32% 4.5 h 3.8 h 11k

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 +8h 90% by +22h

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

  • No storm on record 53%
  • Tropical storm 13%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Windstorm 6.0%
  • Ice storm 4.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fleming

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
Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc Cooperative 202 179 1.32 13.0 24k

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 7,871 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 →