Power outages in Magoffin County, KY

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

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Elevated outages

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

7customers without power

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

0.23% of 3,065 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 Power7 / 3,065

Licking Valley 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.

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.

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 1 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.
41465	Salyersville	7	3,064	0.23%

Outage history in Magoffin County

2014–2025 record

Magoffin County averaged 37.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Kentucky counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 50. Half were over within 3 hours; the longest lasted 3.7 days, starting January 6, 2025.

The largest on record began January 6, 2025, with 3,584 customers out at once.

37.3significant 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.

3 hourstypical (median) length

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

7 dayslongest on record (February 2021)

3,584most 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.
January 6, 2025	3,584	3.7 days	63,198
February 15, 2021	3,021	7 days	221,499
December 12, 2016	2,895	6 hours	6,484
March 26, 2016	2,884	2.5 hours	7,210
September 27, 2024	2,883	1.6 days	43,690

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.

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24 hA half-full freezer holds about 24 hours if kept closed.
48 hA full freezer holds about 48 hours.

Generators, heat and cold

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Use a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm.
Never heat your home with a gas stove or oven.