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

Power outage history

Knott County Kentucky

38hours

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

3rd most of 119 in Kentucky 5.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 28, 2022 84% of customers out · 90% back in 6.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 38h / 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% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.7days Jul 27, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 68% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 3.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,061 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 Knott'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 3.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Knott, hours without power per customer

KnottUS median countyKentucky average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 17 ’15 16 ’16 13 ’17 16 ’18 19 ’19 81 ’20 24 ’21 92 ’22 18 ’23 29 ’24 22 ’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
Jul 27, 2022 Flooding 5,965 84% 8.7 d 6.9 d 548k
Apr 12, 2020 Windstorm 7,061 100% 6.0 d 36 h 470k
Feb 15, 2021 Ice storm 3,088 44% 4.0 d 28 h 83k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,585 37% 3.3 d 36 h 66k
Feb 15, 2025 No storm report 2,346 33% 4.0 d 31 h 45k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,893 27% 2.8 d 13 h 36k
Jun 23, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,921 27% 25 h 4.2 h 28k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 1,353 19% 44 h 24 h 27k
Apr 1, 2023 No storm report 1,205 17% 2.2 d 39 h 26k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,123 30% 3.0 d 25 h 25k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 1,003 14% 2.3 d 23 h 22k
May 17, 2025 No storm report 798 11% 42 h 26 h 19k

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 +10h 90% by +32h

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

  • No storm on record 32%
  • Flooding 29%
  • Windstorm 25%
  • Thunderstorms 6.7%
  • Ice storm 4.6%
  • Tropical storm 1.3%
  • Winter storm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Knott

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 Power Co Investor Owned 911 376 2.62 15.9 130k
Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 1,898 1,138 5.82 14.8 12k

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 7,061 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 →