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

Power outage history

Hickman County Kentucky

16hours

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

21st most of 119 in Kentucky 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 11, 2021 53% of customers out · 90% back in 2.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.4 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 4.8days Dec 10, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,285 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 Hickman'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hickman, hours without power per customer

HickmanUS median countyKentucky average
0 20 40 60 80 ’15 2.5 ’16 9.3 ’17 7.3 ’18 9.2 ’19 8.3 ’20 59 ’21 7.6 ’22 25 ’23 14 ’24 0.9 ’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
Dec 10, 2021 Tornadoes 1,216 53% 4.8 d 2.5 d 88k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,097 48% 2.2 d 8.5 h 18k
Feb 26, 2023 No storm report 2,285 100% 5.2 h 8.8 h 12k
Apr 30, 2023 No storm report 2,285 100% 5.0 h 5.0 h 11k
Jan 7, 2021 No storm report 2,285 100% 5.0 h 15 h 11k
Jan 13, 2021 No storm report 2,285 100% 4.8 h 4.8 h 11k
Jun 21, 2019 No storm report 1,710 75% 36 h 4.0 h 8.8k
May 4, 2021 Tornadoes 1,749 77% 14 h 7.0 h 8.2k
Mar 26, 2021 No storm report 2,285 100% 3.5 h 3.5 h 8.0k
Oct 17, 2020 No storm report 2,285 100% 3.5 h 8.2 h 8.0k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 746 33% 29 h 9.5 h 4.7k
May 3, 2020 Thunderstorms 677 30% 17 h 5.0 h 4.0k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 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 Hickman from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Tornadoes 34%
  • Thunderstorms 8.9%
  • Windstorm 2.5%
  • Flooding 2.1%
  • Heat 1.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hickman

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
West Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative 380 265 2.84 14.2 32k
Gibson Electric Members Corp Cooperative – – – 14.0 2.5k

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 2,285 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 →