Power outages in Johnson County, KY

Live outage counts for Paintsville and the rest of Johnson County, updated every 10 minutes from Kentucky Power.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

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

fewer than 5customers without power

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

Utilities 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 …").

0.03% of 6,906 customersUpdated 7 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.

Kentucky Powerfewer than 5 / 6,906

Big Sandy 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.

Also serves this county, 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

County outlineKentucky Power publishes totals only, not outage locations.

Some 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 13 ZIP codes have outages

ZIP	Area	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.
41238	Unincorporated area	fewer than 5	242	0.83%
41204	Unincorporated area	0	4	0.00%
41222	Paintsville / West Van Lear	0	1,007	0.00%
41234	Unincorporated area	0	251	0.00%
41240	Paintsville / West Van Lear	0	3,107	0.00%
41255	Unincorporated area	0	5	0.00%
41256	Paintsville	0	768	0.00%
41257	Unincorporated area	0	3	0.00%
41263	Unincorporated area	0	86	0.00%
41265	Van Lear	0	451	0.00%
41268	West Van Lear	0	306	0.00%
41271	Unincorporated area	0	108	0.00%
41274	Unincorporated area	0	317	0.00%

Outage history in Johnson County

2014–2025 record

Johnson County averaged 57 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Kentucky counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 62. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 3.6 days, starting January 6, 2025.

The largest on record began February 15, 2021, with 10,000 customers out at once.

57significant 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.

2.5 hourstypical (median) length

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

12 dayslongest on record (February 2021)

10,000most 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.
February 15, 2021	10,000	12 days	772,571
June 17, 2022	5,379	3.2 days	139,900
July 8, 2016	5,220	31 hours	14,455
January 6, 2025	5,172	3.6 days	199,782
May 17, 2025	3,501	23 hours	29,155

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.

If your power is out

Report it to your utility

Kentucky Power: outage map and reporting
Stay at least 35 feet from downed power lines and report them right away.

Food safety

0–4 hKeep the fridge closed. It keeps food cold for about 4 hours.
4 h+Throw out meat, dairy and leftovers that have been above 40°F for more than 2 hours.
24 hA half-full freezer holds about 24 hours if kept closed.
48 hA full freezer holds about 48 hours.

Generators, heat and cold

Run generators outside only, at least 20 feet from windows and doors. Never in a garage.
Use a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm.
Never heat your home with a gas stove or oven.