When will the power be back in Franklin County, KY?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Franklin County, KY right now.

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Elsewhere in Kentucky: 41 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 11:31 PM EDT.

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Who serves Franklin County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Blue Grass Energy ↗, Shelby Energy Cooperative, and LG&E and KU, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Frankfort 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 — Franklin County, KY

Last significant outage: Sep 5, 2026 — peaked at 412 customers, restored in ~20 hr (heat event).

Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 10.8 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 1, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Franklin County, KY

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 249 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

Largest on record: ~4,545 customers out in March 2023, restored after about 5.1 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.

Cities we track in Franklin County

Frankfort

Communities in Franklin County include Frankfort, Bald Knob and Peaks Mill. 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 Franklin County, KY?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Franklin include Blue Grass Energy, Shelby Energy Cooperative, City of Frankfort 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.

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Woodford County · Scott County · Shelby County · Anderson County · Owen County · Henry County · Fayette County · Spencer County

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