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

Power outage history

Metcalfe County Kentucky

10hours

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

44th most of 119 in Kentucky 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 65% of customers out · 90% back in 2.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.1days Mar 3, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 60% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 39 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,226 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 Metcalfe'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 39 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Metcalfe, hours without power per customer

MetcalfeUS median countyKentucky average
0 10 20 30 40 50 2.4 ’15 13 ’16 0.9 ’17 ’18 3.5 ’19 5.0 ’20 3.7 ’21 6.3 ’22 39 ’23 5.9 ’24 7.4 ’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
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 4,026 65% 5.1 d 2.8 d 122k
Jun 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,843 62% 3.0 d 2.3 d 97k
Dec 25, 2016 No storm report 1,455 23% 46 h 45 h 67k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 2,278 37% 36 h 21 h 22k
May 26, 2024 Tornadoes 2,240 36% 40 h 19 h 20k
Jun 14, 2020 No storm report 2,777 45% 9.5 h 1.0 h 16k
Mar 30, 2022 No storm report 2,259 36% 8.0 h 6.8 h 10k
Jul 20, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,232 20% 13 h 5.2 h 6.9k
Oct 19, 2021 No storm report 2,779 45% 1.5 h 1.5 h 4.2k
Aug 15, 2019 No storm report 1,894 30% 3.5 h 2.0 h 3.9k
Jul 20, 2019 No storm report 1,597 26% 3.8 h 13 h 3.9k
Aug 20, 2016 No storm report 1,225 20% 2.8 h 2.8 h 3.4k

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 +4h 90% by +8h

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

  • No storm on record 40%
  • Windstorm 29%
  • Thunderstorms 25%
  • Tornadoes 4.7%
  • Tropical storm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Metcalfe

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
Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 341 128 1.62 13.0 25k
Taylor County Rural E C C Cooperative 456 263 2.61 13.4 25k
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) Cooperative 528 239 3.91 13.1 21k

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 6,226 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 →