Winter Storm Blair Outage Update
January 6, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
Weather
Winter Storm Blair made its way across the country yesterday leaving more than 300,000 customers without power in multiple states. The storm brought heavy snow, ice and rain to Kentucky Power’s service area. There is the possibility of additional snow accumulation in Kentucky Power’s territory later today.
Summary
There are approximately 10,000 Kentucky Power customers without power this morning on more than 286 individual outage cases.
Current power outages per county:
| County | Number of Customers |
| Breathitt | 1,305 |
| Floyd | 1,157 |
| Johnson | 2,205 |
| Knott | 219 |
| Lawrence | 871 |
| Leslie | 200 |
| Letcher | 46 |
| Magoffin | 1,356 |
| Martin | 429 |
| Perry | 649 |
| Pike | 1,496 |
Storm Response Efforts
Restoration is well underway across Kentucky Power’s service area. Nearly 1,000 Kentucky Power personnel, business partners and external resources are working to restore power for our customers. Crews are reporting broken poles and spans of downed wire caused by fallen trees as the main cause for outages so far.
Restoration Process
As crews continue damage assessment from the storm, restoration times will be provided. Restoration will be a multi-day event.
Kentucky Power is committed to restoring power as efficiently as possible. Our first priority is to address outages that impact critical services, including hospitals, emergency services, public safety facilities, and emergency shelters. After these are resolved, our crews focus on residential and business customers.
We typically prioritize larger outages that affect more customers, as our goal is to restore service to the greatest number of people in the shortest amount of time. As a result, outages affecting smaller groups or individual customers will be addressed later in the restoration process. For more information about how power is restored, visit KentuckyPower.com/Outages.
Stay Safe
- Stay away from all downed lines! If you encounter a fallen wire, keep yourself and others away from it and anything it may be touching. Call 911 and Kentucky Power immediately at 1-800-572-1113 to report.
- If you use a portable or RV generator, do not plug the generator into your circuit box. Check our website for generator safety tips and more information at KentuckyPower.com/Safety.
For More Information
- Customers can get specific information about the outages affecting their accounts via text message and/or email by subscribing to Kentucky Power outage alerts. To sign up, please visit KentuckyPower.com/Alerts.
- Customers can report outages and check out the latest restoration information for their account anytime at Kentuckypower.com/Outages or by downloading the Kentucky Power mobile app at Kentuckypower.com/App.
- Customers can also report to our Customer Operations Center at 1-800-572-1113.
- Restoration Information also is posted on Facebook and on Twitter.
Next Update: Monday, January 6, 2025, 6 p.m.
