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2018 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 11.6 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 474th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 2018 01:15 | July 2, 2018 22:45 | 3d 21h | 3,358 | 32K |
| 2 | June 1, 2018 18:00 | June 1, 2018 18:15 | 15m | 2,403 | 601 |
| 3 | February 25, 2018 02:30 | February 25, 2018 04:30 | 2h | 699 | 181 |
| 4 | June 17, 2018 01:15 | June 17, 2018 02:30 | 1h 15m | 612 | 690 |
| 5 | May 31, 2018 20:45 | May 31, 2018 23:15 | 2h 30m | 562 | 291 |
| 6 | August 24, 2018 19:15 | August 24, 2018 20:15 | 1h | 550 | 138 |
| 7 | August 2, 2018 15:30 | August 2, 2018 16:30 | 1h | 360 | 91 |
| 8 | June 12, 2018 18:45 | June 13, 2018 04:45 | 10h | 299 | 750 |
| 9 | June 9, 2018 18:45 | June 10, 2018 02:15 | 7h 30m | 234 | 1,101 |
| 10 | January 12, 2018 06:00 | January 12, 2018 07:45 | 1h 45m | 229 | 399 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 13 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 Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 2.15 | 2.0 hrs | 1.38 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 78% of Kentucky's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/kentucky/ballard-county