Power outages in Kentucky, by utility
Across 31 Kentucky utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 6.3 hours in 2025 — that is 2.1× the national median. Kentucky ranks #5 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 6.3 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 39.9 hrs
- Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp
- Best utility
- 0.4 hrs
- Henderson City Utility Comm
- Utilities reporting
- 31
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Kentucky utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grayson Rural Electric Coop CorpCooperative | 39.8 hrs2391 min | 16.9 | 13.4× worse |
| 2 | Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop CorpCooperative | 31.6 hrs1898 min | 5.8 | 10.7× worse |
| 3 | South Kentucky Rural E C CCooperative | 22.8 hrs1368 min | 3.0 | 7.7× worse |
| 4 | Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY)Cooperative | 15.3 hrs918 min | 3.5 | 5.2× worse |
| 5 | Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY)Cooperative | 15.3 hrs915 min | 3.4 | 5.1× worse |
| 6 | Kentucky Power CoInvestor Owned | 15.2 hrs911 min | 2.6 | 5.1× worse |
| 7 | Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.Cooperative | 15.2 hrs910 min | 4.2 | 5.1× worse |
| 8 | Kenergy CorpCooperative | 11.5 hrs691 min | 3.3 | 3.9× worse |
| 9 | Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN)Cooperative | 8.8 hrs528 min | 3.9 | 3.0× worse |
| 10 | Salt River Electric Coop CorpCooperative | 8.5 hrs512 min | 2.3 | 2.9× worse |
| 11 | Warren Rural Elec Coop CorpCooperative | 7.9 hrs476 min | 3.2 | 2.7× worse |
| 12 | Taylor County Rural E C CCooperative | 7.6 hrs456 min | 2.6 | 2.6× worse |
| 13 | Meade County Rural E C CCooperative | 7.4 hrs446 min | 2.6 | 2.5× worse |
| 14 | Blue Grass Energy Coop CorpCooperative | 7.1 hrs426 min | 1.9 | 2.4× worse |
| 15 | Jackson Purchase Energy CorporationCooperative | 6.6 hrs395 min | 3.0 | 2.2× worse |
| 16 | West Kentucky Rural E C CCooperative | 6.3 hrs380 min | 2.8 | 2.1× worse |
| 17 | Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY)Cooperative | 5.7 hrs341 min | 1.6 | 1.9× worse |
| 18 | Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY)Cooperative | 4.9 hrs293 min | 1.8 | 1.6× worse |
| 19 | Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY)Cooperative | 4.1 hrs245 min | 1.9 | 1.4× worse |
| 20 | Louisville Gas & Electric CoInvestor Owned | 3.8 hrs228 min | 1.2 | 1.3× worse |
| 21 | Fleming-Mason Energy Coop IncCooperative | 3.4 hrs201 min | 1.3 | 1.1× worse |
| 22 | Nolin Rural Electric Coop CorpCooperative | 3.3 hrs199 min | 1.3 | 1.1× worse |
| 23 | Kentucky Utilities CoInvestor Owned | 3.3 hrs197 min | 1.1 | 1.1× worse |
| 24 | Duke Energy KentuckyInvestor Owned | 3.1 hrs184 min | 0.9 | 1.0× worse |
| 25 | City of Glasgow - (KY)Municipal | 2.7 hrs163 min | 2.7 | 1.1× better |
| 26 | Owen Electric Coop IncCooperative | 2.3 hrs135 min | 1.2 | 1.3× better |
| 27 | City of Owensboro - (KY)Municipal | 1.5 hrs87 min | 1.1 | 2.0× better |
| 28 | City of Frankfort - (KY)Municipal | 1.4 hrs85 min | 0.8 | 2.1× better |
| 29 | City of Bowling Green - (KY)Municipal | 0.8 hrs46 min | 0.5 | 3.9× better |
| 30 | City of Paducah - (KY)Municipal | 0.6 hrs33 min | 0.9 | 5.3× better |
| 31 | Henderson City Utility CommMunicipal | 0.4 hrs23 min | 0.4 | 7.7× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.