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

Power outage history

Pendleton County Kentucky

6.5hours

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

71st most of 119 in Kentucky close to the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 1, 2017 37% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.5h / yr State average 7.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.4days Mar 1, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 53% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 12 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,272 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 Pendleton'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 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pendleton, hours without power per customer

PendletonUS median countyKentucky average
0 5 10 15 3.0 ’15 1.0 ’16 9.8 ’17 4.9 ’18 4.2 ’19 10 ’20 2.7 ’21 5.7 ’22 12 ’23 7.3 ’24 5.2 ’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 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,321 37% 2.4 d 2.1 d 47k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 2,821 45% 2.0 d 42 h 44k
Apr 8, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,511 40% 41 h 18 h 39k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 1,448 23% 47 h 41 h 18k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 891 14% 24 h 23 h 12k
Apr 3, 2025 No storm report 2,799 45% 19 h 5.0 h 12k
Feb 9, 2023 No storm report 2,104 34% 7.2 h 3.0 h 8.5k
May 26, 2024 No storm report 817 13% 24 h 21 h 6.8k
Aug 28, 2022 No storm report 1,969 31% 3.8 h 2.8 h 6.4k
May 31, 2018 Tropical Storm Alberto 907 14% 14 h 4.0 h 6.2k
Jun 30, 2020 No storm report 2,090 33% 7.5 h 4.2 h 5.4k
Jun 23, 2022 Thunderstorms 579 9% 11 h 4.0 h 5.2k

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 +10h

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

  • No storm on record 47%
  • Thunderstorms 24%
  • Windstorm 16%
  • Tropical storm 8.7%
  • Ice storm 2.1%
  • Heat 1.1%
  • Flooding 0.8%
  • Winter storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pendleton

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 Utilities Co Investor Owned 197 89 1.14 11.9 454k
Duke Energy Kentucky Investor Owned 184 98 0.88 13.9 141k
Owen Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 135 103 1.20 12.6 65k
Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp Cooperative 426 255 1.91 12.6 62k
City of Falmouth KY – – – – 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 6,272 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 →