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2016 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 583rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 11, 2016 14:30 | April 12, 2016 04:00 | 13h 30m | 4,710 | 6,638 |
| 2 | July 6, 2016 12:00 | July 7, 2016 17:15 | 1d 5h | 3,847 | 6,684 |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 20:45 | July 10, 2016 23:30 | 2d 2h | 1,709 | 15K |
| 4 | May 8, 2016 00:15 | May 9, 2016 18:15 | 1d 18h | 1,671 | 5,428 |
| 5 | February 23, 2016 05:30 | February 23, 2016 23:45 | 18h 15m | 1,349 | 3,266 |
| 6 | May 11, 2016 11:30 | May 11, 2016 18:30 | 7h | 1,196 | 2,198 |
| 7 | April 26, 2016 05:15 | April 26, 2016 14:00 | 8h 45m | 1,168 | 628 |
| 8 | May 4, 2016 14:30 | May 4, 2016 17:00 | 2h 30m | 1,157 | 1,183 |
| 9 | November 19, 2016 11:00 | November 19, 2016 19:15 | 8h 15m | 1,119 | 3,950 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 14:15 | February 24, 2016 23:30 | 9h 15m | 1,082 | 752 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 46 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.35 | 2.0 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/kentucky/bell-county