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

Power outage history

Martin County Kentucky

27hours

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

8th most of 119 in Kentucky 4.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 17, 2022 64% of customers out · 90% back in 27 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 27h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 11.9 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 4.0days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 53% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 46 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,097 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 Martin'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 46 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Martin, hours without power per customer

MartinUS median countyKentucky average
0 20 40 60 22 ’15 12 ’16 19 ’17 17 ’18 22 ’19 17 ’20 46 ’21 38 ’22 27 ’23 14 ’24 34 ’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
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,906 64% 4.0 d 27 h 117k
Feb 15, 2021 Ice storm 2,959 49% 4.0 d 6.2 h 105k
Feb 28, 2021 Flooding 1,757 29% 2.9 d 41 h 103k
Jan 5, 2025 Winter storm 1,767 29% 3.8 d 3.2 d 73k
Apr 1, 2023 Windstorm 3,519 58% 2.3 d 39 h 60k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 1,901 31% 2.1 d 23 h 53k
Mar 1, 2017 No storm report 1,806 30% 2.3 d 43 h 53k
Jul 27, 2022 No storm report 1,758 29% 3.3 d 2.3 d 41k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,391 23% 3.9 d 9.8 h 34k
Apr 13, 2020 Windstorm 1,508 25% 2.4 d 26 h 30k
Jun 24, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,075 50% 26 h 15 h 27k
May 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,625 43% 40 h 6.8 h 27k

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 +16h 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 Martin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 47%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Windstorm 9.9%
  • Flooding 9.7%
  • Ice storm 8.6%
  • Winter storm 7.6%
  • Tropical storm 2.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Martin

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 6,097 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 →