Power outages in Floyd County, KY

Live outage counts for Prestonsburg, Wheelwright and Martin and the rest of Floyd County, updated every 10 minutes from Kentucky Power.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
fewer than 5customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
iUtilities hide very small outages for privacy and publish them only as "fewer than 5". Where many of these add up, we show an estimate ("about …").
0.01% of 14,046 customersUpdated 7 min ago
iWe 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.
Kentucky Powerfewer than 5 / 14,046
Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corpno live feed
iThis 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.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom 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

Outage locations not published
County outlineKentucky Power publishes totals only, not outage locations.
iSome utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

1 of 31 ZIP codes have outages
ZIPAreaOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
41619Unincorporated areafewer than 52730.73%
41216Paintsville / Prestonsburg06380.00%
41601Allen / Prestonsburg04320.00%
41602Auxier / Prestonsburg03990.00%
41603Unincorporated area06520.00%
41604Unincorporated area02590.00%
41605Betsy Layne04010.00%
41606Wheelwright02620.00%
41607Prestonsburg060.00%
41612Unincorporated area0510.00%
41615Unincorporated area03160.00%
41616Unincorporated area01070.00%
41621Dwale01620.00%
41622Unincorporated area0860.00%
41630Wayland01770.00%

Outage history in Floyd County

2014–2025 record

Floyd County averaged 52.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Kentucky counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 61. Half were over within 3 hours; the longest lasted 3.1 days, starting February 15, 2025.

The largest on record began February 15, 2021, with 6,930 customers out at once.

52.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt 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.
3 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
6.3 dayslongest on record (February 2021)
6,930most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
February 15, 20216,9306.3 days262,456
March 3, 20234,8242.2 days111,127
March 30, 20234,5064.1 days123,925
April 13, 20204,2324.9 days238,295
June 24, 20173,90813 hours13,741

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

iFrom 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.

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Generators, heat and cold

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