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2015 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.3 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 113 Kentucky counties and 944th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 28, 2015 15:00 | December 28, 2015 16:00 | 1h | 3,873 | 3,265 |
| 2 | March 17, 2015 22:00 | March 18, 2015 03:15 | 5h 15m | 3,865 | 2,587 |
| 3 | December 2, 2015 13:45 | December 2, 2015 14:30 | 45m | 1,175 | 737 |
| 4 | July 13, 2015 21:45 | July 16, 2015 06:30 | 2d 8h | 735 | 8,453 |
| 5 | November 12, 2015 10:00 | November 12, 2015 12:15 | 2h 15m | 631 | 948 |
| 6 | April 26, 2015 03:30 | April 26, 2015 19:15 | 15h 45m | 465 | 1,354 |
| 7 | June 22, 2015 18:45 | June 22, 2015 23:45 | 5h | 412 | 746 |
| 8 | June 8, 2015 19:15 | June 9, 2015 07:00 | 11h 45m | 394 | 1,597 |
| 9 | August 27, 2015 21:00 | August 27, 2015 22:45 | 1h 45m | 293 | 368 |
| 10 | May 19, 2015 13:45 | May 19, 2015 15:15 | 1h 30m | 275 | 412 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Bell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Kentucky's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,248 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Bell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell County, KY annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/kentucky/bell-county