Power outage history
Grant County Kentucky
5.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
80th most of 119 in Kentucky close to 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 Grant'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 9.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Grant, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,374 | 52% | 25 h | 11 h | 47k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 4,305 | 42% | 2.1 d | 4.5 h | 32k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,760 | 27% | 33 h | 25 h | 30k |
| Jul 6, 2022 | No storm report | 1,670 | 16% | 17 h | 16 h | 28k |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,872 | 18% | 22 h | 18 h | 23k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 3,360 | 33% | 21 h | 5.8 h | 19k |
| May 6, 2024 | No storm report | 9,100 | 89% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 15k |
| May 31, 2018 | Tropical Storm Alberto | 2,138 | 21% | 11 h | 7.2 h | 14k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 915 | 9% | 27 h | 28 h | 11k |
| Jul 31, 2018 | No storm report | 2,475 | 24% | 7.8 h | 2.8 h | 8.4k |
| Jul 6, 2020 | No storm report | 1,790 | 17% | 8.8 h | 7.2 h | 8.2k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 731 | 7% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 6.2k |
| Oct 15, 2023 | No storm report | 746 | 7% | 8.0 h | 6.0 h | 6.0k |
| Dec 18, 2019 | No storm report | 5,912 | 58% | 1.5 h | 2.5 h | 5.7k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | No storm report | 604 | 6% | 11 h | 4.8 h | 5.6k |
| Feb 10, 2022 | No storm report | 2,815 | 27% | 2.0 h | 5.0 h | 5.6k |
| Sep 24, 2024 | No storm report | 1,676 | 16% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 5.4k |
| Oct 29, 2023 | No storm report | 1,668 | 16% | 3.0 h | 5.8 h | 5.0k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 760 | 7% | 7.8 h | 6.5 h | 4.8k |
| Jun 6, 2022 | No storm report | 1,055 | 10% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 4.8k |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,771 | 17% | 4.0 h | 3.5 h | 4.7k |
| Apr 17, 2023 | No storm report | 717 | 7% | 7.5 h | 8.5 h | 4.4k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 390 | 4% | 20 h | – | 4.4k |
| Oct 5, 2015 | No storm report | 1,592 | 16% | 2.8 h | 48 min | 4.2k |
| Nov 17, 2021 | No storm report | 1,148 | 11% | 5.0 h | 2.5 h | 4.0k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Ice storm | 1,055 | 10% | 4.5 h | 1.8 h | 3.7k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | No storm report | 1,069 | 10% | 7.5 h | 1.5 h | 3.5k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 1,648 | 16% | 3.5 h | 12 min | 3.4k |
| May 23, 2024 | No storm report | 830 | 8% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 3.1k |
| May 19, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,438 | 24% | 1.2 h | 12 min | 3.0k |
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 Grant from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 65%
- Thunderstorms 20%
- Tropical storm 6.7%
- Ice storm 5.6%
- Winter storm 1.7%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Grant
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 |
| Duke Energy Kentucky | Investor Owned | 184 | 98 | 0.88 | 13.9 | 141k |
| Owen Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 135 | 103 | 1.20 | 12.6 | 65k |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | Cooperative | 426 | 255 | 1.91 | 12.6 | 62k |
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | Cooperative | 986 | 246 | 4.32 | 13.9 | 41k |
| Williamstown Utility Comm | KY | – | – | – | – | 16k |
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 10,264 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 →