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Who serves Breathitt County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Kentucky Power ↗, Licking Valley Rural ECC, Big Sandy RECC ↗ and Jackson Energy Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Breathitt County, KY
Last significant outage: Sep 16, 2026 — peaked at 419 customers, restored in ~1 hr (weather alert).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 11.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 1, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Breathitt County, KY
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
251 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Kentucky norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~3,078 customers out in July 2022, restored after about 9.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Breathitt County include Jackson, Canoe, Haddix, Hardshell, Oakdale, Rousseau and Taulbee. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Breathitt County, KY?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Breathitt include Kentucky Power, Licking Valley Rural ECC, Big Sandy RECC and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
