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2017 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 5,016 customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1850th 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 Nicholas 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 | September 26, 2017 23:45 | September 27, 2017 03:15 | 3h 30m | 419 | 1,363 |
| 2 | July 24, 2017 05:30 | July 24, 2017 07:00 | 1h 30m | 293 | 368 |
| 3 | February 13, 2017 01:45 | February 13, 2017 04:15 | 2h 30m | 211 | 283 |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 09:15 | March 2, 2017 04:30 | 19h 15m | 95 | 828 |
| 5 | August 1, 2017 13:00 | August 1, 2017 15:30 | 2h 30m | 66 | 134 |
| 6 | May 1, 2017 12:00 | May 1, 2017 18:00 | 6h | 64 | 270 |
| 7 | January 11, 2017 02:00 | January 11, 2017 04:30 | 2h 30m | 63 | 140 |
| 8 | March 25, 2017 15:45 | March 25, 2017 16:30 | 45m | 62 | 47 |
| 9 | June 29, 2017 14:45 | June 29, 2017 16:00 | 1h 15m | 60 | 75 |
| 10 | November 18, 2017 16:00 | November 19, 2017 01:30 | 9h 30m | 54 | 289 |
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 Nicholas 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 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2017 | 4.9 hrs | 1.36 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/nicholas-county