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

Power outage history

Washington County Kentucky

10hours

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

41st most of 119 in Kentucky 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 100% 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 5.0 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 4.1days Mar 3, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 44 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,512 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 Washington'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 44 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Washington, hours without power per customer

WashingtonUS median countyKentucky average
0 10 20 30 0.5 ’15 0.2 ’16 3.5 ’17 9.2 ’18 2.2 ’19 1.8 ’20 2.6 ’21 4.7 ’22 44 ’23 11 ’24 7.8 ’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 5,512 100% 4.1 d 2.8 d 179k
Mar 11, 2018 Winter storm 2,145 39% 42 h 21 h 31k
May 26, 2024 No storm report 2,402 44% 25 h 8.8 h 16k
Jan 5, 2025 Winter storm 797 14% 43 h 22 h 15k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 1,425 26% 20 h 13 h 12k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 980 18% 32 h 48 min 9.4k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 787 14% 39 h 18 h 6.2k
Jul 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 422 8% 26 h 27 h 5.7k
Aug 17, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,564 28% 7.0 h 4.0 h 4.5k
Feb 11, 2023 No storm report 1,202 22% 3.5 h 11 h 4.2k
Jul 24, 2023 No storm report 758 14% 8.2 h 5.5 h 3.9k
Jun 20, 2023 No storm report 1,137 21% 5.5 h 6.5 h 3.8k

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 +18h

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

  • Windstorm 43%
  • No storm on record 39%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Thunderstorms 3.8%
  • Tropical storm 2.3%
  • Tornadoes 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Washington

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
Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp Cooperative 426 255 1.91 12.6 62k
Salt River Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 512 126 2.31 10.9 54k
Inter County Energy Coop Corp Cooperative 293 117 1.78 13.7 27k

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 5,512 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 →