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2016 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 3,784 customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.0 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 117 Kentucky counties and 1734th 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 Nicholas 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 | May 24, 2016 01:30 | May 24, 2016 02:00 | 30m | 1,186 | 487 |
| 2 | May 12, 2016 09:30 | May 12, 2016 11:15 | 1h 45m | 426 | 536 |
| 3 | November 13, 2016 02:45 | November 13, 2016 04:30 | 1h 45m | 423 | 385 |
| 4 | January 19, 2016 00:45 | January 19, 2016 01:30 | 45m | 302 | 113 |
| 5 | December 18, 2016 05:30 | December 18, 2016 08:30 | 3h | 195 | 356 |
| 6 | February 3, 2016 16:45 | February 3, 2016 17:15 | 30m | 129 | 65 |
| 7 | February 10, 2016 00:15 | February 10, 2016 01:45 | 1h 30m | 115 | 172 |
| 8 | December 24, 2016 07:00 | December 24, 2016 10:30 | 3h 30m | 105 | 127 |
| 9 | April 2, 2016 21:30 | April 3, 2016 02:30 | 5h | 104 | 349 |
| 10 | August 27, 2016 21:15 | August 27, 2016 23:00 | 1h 45m | 76 | 68 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.11 | 2.0 hrs | 1.01 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,502 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county