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Who serves Fayette County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include LG&E and KU and Blue Grass Energy ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Clark Energy Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Fayette County, KY
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 394 customers, restored in ~1.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Fayette County, KY
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
970 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
19 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~111,273 customers out in November 2025, restored after about 3.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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.
Cities we track in Fayette County
Communities in Fayette County include Lexington, Lexington-Fayette Central, Lexington-Fayette Northeast, Lexington-Fayette Northwest, Lexington-Fayette Southeast and Lexington-Fayette Southwest. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
