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

Power outage history

Monroe County Kentucky

6.5hours

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

72nd most of 119 in Kentucky close to the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 49% of customers out · 90% back in 19 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.5h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.0 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 2.9days Mar 3, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 36% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 18 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,991 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 Monroe'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 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Monroe, hours without power per customer

MonroeUS median countyKentucky average
0 5 10 15 20 25 5.0 ’15 5.6 ’16 11 ’17 2.4 ’18 7.8 ’19 5.2 ’20 5.0 ’21 4.0 ’22 18 ’23 4.2 ’24 4.8 ’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 3,398 49% 2.9 d 19 h 64k
Jul 1, 2017 No storm report 1,141 16% 45 h 34 h 30k
Jun 14, 2020 No storm report 2,497 36% 8.5 h 9.5 h 20k
Jul 2, 2023 No storm report 3,219 46% 8.2 h 4.8 h 20k
Jul 4, 2017 No storm report 728 10% 25 h 26 h 18k
Mar 20, 2016 No storm report 1,921 27% 17 h 17 h 17k
Jun 26, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,738 39% 17 h 12 h 15k
Jun 21, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,230 18% 17 h 11 h 14k
Jun 12, 2021 No storm report 3,137 45% 4.0 h 3.8 h 11k
May 26, 2024 Tornadoes 1,455 21% 19 h 11 h 9.3k
Aug 15, 2019 No storm report 3,104 44% 3.5 h 1.8 h 7.5k
Jan 26, 2015 No storm report 662 9% 11 h 11 h 7.1k

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 +12h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Monroe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 64%
  • Windstorm 20%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Tornadoes 3.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Monroe

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
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+

All Kentucky counties →

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 6,991 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 →