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2018 Barren County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Barren County, KY went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 2288th 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 Barren 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 | October 17, 2018 03:30 | October 17, 2018 05:30 | 2h | 1,241 | 2,482 |
| 2 | September 21, 2018 22:15 | September 22, 2018 06:15 | 8h | 1,053 | 2,762 |
| 3 | April 7, 2018 13:45 | April 7, 2018 15:45 | 2h | 635 | 795 |
| 4 | October 7, 2018 07:45 | October 7, 2018 08:30 | 45m | 633 | 475 |
| 5 | March 6, 2018 22:15 | March 7, 2018 14:45 | 16h 30m | 524 | 8,433 |
| 6 | June 10, 2018 19:00 | June 10, 2018 23:45 | 4h 45m | 524 | 1,745 |
| 7 | December 2, 2018 16:15 | December 2, 2018 16:30 | 15m | 524 | 131 |
| 8 | March 27, 2018 23:00 | March 28, 2018 02:00 | 3h | 523 | 1,569 |
| 9 | May 10, 2018 07:00 | May 10, 2018 08:45 | 1h 45m | 522 | 914 |
| 10 | January 14, 2018 07:30 | January 14, 2018 08:15 | 45m | 284 | 142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 17 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 Barren 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 3.38 | 3.3 hrs | 3.12 |
| Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.06 | 82 min | 0.89 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 5.5 hrs | 2.65 | 2.2 hrs | 2.12 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glasgow - (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 78% of Kentucky's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,665 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. Barren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barren 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/barren-county