Power outage history
Morgan County Kentucky
5.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
90th most of 119 in Kentucky 22% below the national median
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 Morgan's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Morgan, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 3,523 | 43% | 3.9 d | 2.2 d | 134k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 2,445 | 30% | 2.2 d | 29 h | 33k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Ice storm | 593 | 7% | 3.9 d | 3.9 d | 27k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,834 | 22% | 31 h | 12 h | 7.8k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 975 | 12% | 16 h | 14 h | 6.2k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | Flooding | 706 | 9% | 21 h | 1.5 h | 5.2k |
| Oct 3, 2015 | No storm report | 973 | 12% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 4.4k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 634 | 8% | 10 h | 6.8 h | 4.0k |
| May 16, 2025 | No storm report | 473 | 6% | 7.0 h | 3.5 h | 3.3k |
| Sep 6, 2025 | No storm report | 1,167 | 14% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 3.2k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 443 | 5% | 6.8 h | 6.8 h | 3.0k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | No storm report | 877 | 11% | 11 h | 6.0 h | 2.9k |
| Jul 22, 2020 | No storm report | 445 | 5% | 7.5 h | 5.2 h | 2.7k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | No storm report | 460 | 6% | 6.0 h | 17 h | 2.7k |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 706 | 9% | 3.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.6k |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 428 | 5% | 7.8 h | 8.5 h | 2.6k |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Winter storm | 278 | 3% | 15 h | – | 2.5k |
| Oct 28, 2025 | No storm report | 827 | 10% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.3k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 961 | 12% | 4.2 h | 6.2 h | 2.3k |
| Nov 13, 2017 | No storm report | 394 | 5% | 4.5 h | – | 1.7k |
| Sep 16, 2015 | No storm report | 973 | 12% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.7k |
| Jan 25, 2024 | No storm report | 418 | 5% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 1.7k |
| Apr 3, 2024 | No storm report | 445 | 5% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 1.7k |
| Nov 19, 2016 | No storm report | 963 | 12% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 1.6k |
| Sep 4, 2024 | No storm report | 436 | 5% | 6.5 h | 8.8 h | 1.6k |
| Oct 1, 2024 | No storm report | 286 | 4% | 11 h | – | 1.5k |
| Jul 21, 2025 | No storm report | 922 | 11% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 1.5k |
| Jul 18, 2015 | No storm report | 166 | 2% | 9.0 h | – | 1.4k |
| Aug 9, 2022 | No storm report | 440 | 5% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 1.3k |
| Jan 20, 2017 | No storm report | 723 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.3k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Morgan from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 48%
- No storm on record 24%
- Tropical storm 12%
- Ice storm 9.4%
- Thunderstorms 5.3%
- Windstorm 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Morgan
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 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc | Cooperative | 918 | 324 | 3.45 | 13.3 | 26k |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | Cooperative | 386 | 235 | 2.58 | 15.2 | 17k |
| 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.
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 8,162 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 →