Kentucky power outages

Live outages across Kentucky from LG&E and KU and Kentucky Power, updated every 10 minutes. 29 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

385customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.03% of 1,173,189 customersUpdated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

LG&E and KU225 / 1,015,015

Kentucky Power160 / 158,174

Duke Energy Kentuckyno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Warren Rural Elec Coop Corpno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

South Kentucky Rural E C Cno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed

Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

97 counties with live data

County	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Perry County	117	14,063	0.83%
Jefferson County	108	415,540	0.03%
Boyd County	20	23,779	0.08%
Fayette County	19	160,224	0.01%
Meade County	19	2,079	0.91%
Garrard County	10	4,295	0.23%
Harlan County	8	12,810	0.06%
Hart County	8	3,900	0.21%
Mason County	8	7,336	0.11%
Crittenden County	6	2,853	0.21%
Madison County	6	28,442	0.02%
Adair County	5	2,801	0.18%
Bell County	5	13,103	0.04%
Martin County	5	4,349	0.11%
Oldham County	5	30,247	0.02%

Outage history in Kentucky

2014–2025 record

Kentucky averaged 7 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 8. Half were over within 5.5 hours; the longest lasted 1.9 days, starting January 5, 2025.

The largest on record began March 3, 2023, with 528,390 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in June.

7significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

6 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

6.8 dayslongest on record (February 2021)

528,390most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
March 3, 2023	528,390	4.5 days	21,753,925
September 27, 2024	226,810	2.5 days	5,995,585
May 26, 2024	215,144	3.1 days	7,916,493
May 17, 2025	170,683	1.6 days	2,669,273
November 12, 2025	165,363	15 minutes	41,341

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in Kentucky

Utilities

LG&E and KU
Kentucky Power
Duke Energy Kentucky no live feed
Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp no live feed
South Kentucky Rural E C C no live feed
Owen Electric Coop Inc no live feed
Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp no live feed
Kenergy Corp no live feed
Salt River Electric Coop Corp no live feed
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) no live feed