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2017 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1242nd 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 Bell 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 | May 28, 2017 00:00 | May 28, 2017 18:45 | 18h 45m | 2,718 | 5,724 |
| 2 | August 13, 2017 12:00 | August 13, 2017 13:15 | 1h 15m | 1,146 | 1,055 |
| 3 | April 14, 2017 05:00 | April 14, 2017 06:15 | 1h 15m | 915 | 636 |
| 4 | October 28, 2017 13:45 | October 28, 2017 21:00 | 7h 15m | 914 | 1,151 |
| 5 | November 6, 2017 11:30 | November 6, 2017 13:00 | 1h 30m | 735 | 647 |
| 6 | May 21, 2017 03:15 | May 21, 2017 10:00 | 6h 45m | 619 | 1,275 |
| 7 | January 8, 2017 21:30 | January 9, 2017 08:45 | 11h 15m | 530 | 1,867 |
| 8 | March 31, 2017 10:30 | March 31, 2017 17:45 | 7h 15m | 444 | 970 |
| 9 | July 5, 2017 19:00 | July 5, 2017 23:00 | 4h | 403 | 1,144 |
| 10 | April 20, 2017 18:30 | April 20, 2017 21:45 | 3h 15m | 400 | 867 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.36 | 2.6 hrs | 1.30 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/bell-county