When will the power be back in Mercer County, KY?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Mercer County, KY right now.
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Elsewhere in Kentucky: 19 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 5:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves Mercer County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include LG&E and KU, Blue Grass Energy ↗, Inter County Energy Cooperative Corp and Salt River Electric ↗, 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 — Mercer County, KY
Last significant outage: Sep 19, 2026 — peaked at 270 customers, restored in ~4 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.8 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 — Mercer County, KY
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
139 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~6,309 customers out in January 2023, restored after about 4 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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 Mercer County include Harrodsburg, Burgin, Salvisa and Salvisa-McAfee. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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