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2018 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 1132nd 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 Bell 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 | December 17, 2018 07:30 | December 17, 2018 08:45 | 1h 15m | 3,858 | 3,500 |
| 2 | August 4, 2018 23:30 | August 5, 2018 07:45 | 8h 15m | 1,478 | 3,658 |
| 3 | November 29, 2018 14:15 | November 29, 2018 21:45 | 7h 30m | 1,351 | 713 |
| 4 | November 5, 2018 05:45 | November 5, 2018 17:30 | 11h 45m | 1,238 | 707 |
| 5 | September 3, 2018 20:00 | September 3, 2018 21:15 | 1h 15m | 1,200 | 302 |
| 6 | April 4, 2018 05:15 | April 5, 2018 02:15 | 21h | 1,095 | 4,801 |
| 7 | March 15, 2018 13:45 | March 15, 2018 20:45 | 7h | 958 | 1,390 |
| 8 | September 18, 2018 13:15 | September 18, 2018 16:30 | 3h 15m | 931 | 237 |
| 9 | June 24, 2018 22:30 | June 26, 2018 09:30 | 1d 11h | 816 | 5,588 |
| 10 | June 9, 2018 22:15 | June 10, 2018 13:30 | 15h 15m | 683 | 2,035 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 42 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 3.23 | 4.9 hrs | 2.64 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/bell-county