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Who serves Carter County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Kentucky Power ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Grayson Rural Electric Cooperative Corp and City of Olive Hill also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Carter County, KY
⚡ Power here was restored about 14 hours ago — the outage peaked at 941 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 941 customers, restored in ~1.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 11, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Carter County, KY
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
259 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.3 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: ~11,506 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 15 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 Carter County include Grayson, Olive Hill, Grahn, Upper Tygart and Willard. 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 Carter County, KY?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Carter include Kentucky Power, Grayson Rural Electric Cooperative Corp and City of Olive Hill — 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.
