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2017 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 4,021 customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2058th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1, 2017 11:15 | March 2, 2017 05:00 | 17h 45m | 538 | 2,663 |
| 2 | December 30, 2017 15:00 | December 30, 2017 16:45 | 1h 45m | 267 | 333 |
| 3 | May 5, 2017 15:15 | May 5, 2017 17:00 | 1h 45m | 110 | 57 |
| 4 | September 25, 2017 13:00 | September 25, 2017 15:30 | 2h 30m | 55 | 16 |
| 5 | April 30, 2017 18:45 | May 1, 2017 02:30 | 7h 45m | 54 | 145 |
| 6 | October 11, 2017 13:30 | October 11, 2017 14:15 | 45m | 49 | 25 |
| 7 | December 24, 2017 15:15 | December 24, 2017 16:30 | 1h 15m | 39 | 39 |
| 8 | September 7, 2017 07:30 | September 7, 2017 12:15 | 4h 45m | 36 | 58 |
| 9 | June 6, 2017 13:15 | June 6, 2017 14:00 | 45m | 28 | 21 |
| 10 | June 13, 2017 11:30 | June 13, 2017 15:00 | 3h 30m | 26 | 91 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 | 80 min | 0.83 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2017 | 6.3 hrs | 1.91 | 2.0 hrs | 1.15 |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,230 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. Ballard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ballard County, KY annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/kentucky/ballard-county