Power outage history
Woodford County Kentucky
23hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
12th most of 119 in Kentucky 3.5× 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 Woodford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.9 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Woodford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 12,322 | 100% | 4.1 d | 3.8 d | 772k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 11,346 | 92% | 5.3 d | 4.4 d | 686k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 4,633 | 38% | 3.2 d | 2.2 d | 169k |
| Jul 2, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 6,873 | 56% | 2.1 d | 22 h | 97k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,423 | 20% | 2.3 d | 46 h | 48k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,498 | 20% | 38 h | 27 h | 43k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 4,671 | 38% | 14 h | 3.2 h | 18k |
| Oct 2, 2023 | No storm report | 2,058 | 17% | 8.5 h | 9.5 h | 17k |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Ice storm | 5,057 | 41% | 19 h | 10 h | 16k |
| May 31, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,732 | 30% | 14 h | 8.8 h | 13k |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,783 | 23% | 13 h | 14 h | 13k |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,145 | 17% | 12 h | 7.0 h | 10.0k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | No storm report | 1,176 | 10% | 15 h | 8.5 h | 9.3k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 888 | 7% | 19 h | 17 h | 8.6k |
| Jul 10, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,364 | 19% | 14 h | 48 min | 8.6k |
| Jul 4, 2017 | No storm report | 5,022 | 41% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 7.7k |
| May 16, 2025 | No storm report | 950 | 8% | 15 h | 14 h | 7.2k |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Tornadoes | 435 | 4% | 28 h | – | 6.0k |
| Dec 20, 2018 | No storm report | 1,466 | 12% | 4.0 h | 3.8 h | 5.2k |
| Sep 13, 2019 | No storm report | 3,604 | 29% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 4.5k |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Flooding | 1,044 | 8% | 4.8 h | 4.2 h | 4.3k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | No storm report | 803 | 7% | 7.0 h | 6.8 h | 4.0k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 608 | 5% | 12 h | – | 4.0k |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 550 | 4% | 11 h | – | 3.9k |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 468 | 4% | 15 h | – | 3.9k |
| Dec 6, 2017 | No storm report | 1,463 | 12% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 3.8k |
| Jan 1, 2016 | No storm report | 842 | 7% | 7.8 h | 7.8 h | 3.6k |
| Mar 31, 2022 | No storm report | 1,059 | 9% | 11 h | 10 h | 3.4k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 833 | 7% | 13 h | 12 h | 3.4k |
| Apr 3, 2018 | No storm report | 894 | 7% | 5.5 h | 5.8 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.
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 Woodford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 46%
- Windstorm 33%
- No storm on record 8.5%
- Tropical storm 8.2%
- Winter storm 2.9%
- Ice storm 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Woodford
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 |
| City of Frankfort | Municipal | 85 | 29 | 0.82 | 11.1 | 17k |
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 12,322 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 →