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2017 Nelson County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nelson County, KY went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1265th 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 Nelson 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 | July 20, 2017 14:45 | July 20, 2017 15:15 | 30m | 15,158 | 7,529 |
| 2 | November 9, 2017 18:15 | November 9, 2017 22:00 | 3h 45m | 11,813 | 13K |
| 3 | May 3, 2017 14:15 | May 3, 2017 15:15 | 1h | 4,948 | 3,837 |
| 4 | January 30, 2017 10:15 | January 30, 2017 14:00 | 3h 45m | 2,709 | 6,835 |
| 5 | April 5, 2017 14:00 | April 5, 2017 14:15 | 15m | 1,780 | 445 |
| 6 | December 13, 2017 17:45 | December 13, 2017 20:30 | 2h 45m | 1,204 | 3,118 |
| 7 | November 30, 2017 19:15 | November 30, 2017 20:30 | 1h 15m | 1,202 | 902 |
| 8 | February 19, 2017 20:15 | February 19, 2017 23:00 | 2h 45m | 973 | 2,248 |
| 9 | March 22, 2017 16:00 | March 22, 2017 16:15 | 15m | 875 | 219 |
| 10 | May 24, 2017 06:30 | May 24, 2017 07:45 | 1h 15m | 728 | 910 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 53 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Nelson 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2017 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2017 | 2.9 hrs | 2.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 | 61 min | 0.80 |
| City of Bardstown - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,386 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county