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2018 Breathitt County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Breathitt County, KY went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 820th 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 Breathitt 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 | August 9, 2018 23:00 | August 10, 2018 23:15 | 1d | 1,001 | 2,200 |
| 2 | March 12, 2018 07:30 | March 13, 2018 00:15 | 16h 45m | 788 | 7,493 |
| 3 | October 5, 2018 05:30 | October 5, 2018 14:30 | 9h | 470 | 2,228 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 04:30 | April 5, 2018 23:15 | 1d 18h | 462 | 7,447 |
| 5 | September 1, 2018 17:30 | September 2, 2018 03:15 | 9h 45m | 344 | 1,462 |
| 6 | May 7, 2018 06:15 | May 7, 2018 20:00 | 13h 45m | 302 | 3,508 |
| 7 | June 25, 2018 12:45 | June 27, 2018 22:15 | 2d 9h | 262 | 2,399 |
| 8 | April 6, 2018 07:30 | April 6, 2018 16:15 | 8h 45m | 248 | 1,029 |
| 9 | February 25, 2018 06:00 | February 25, 2018 09:45 | 3h 45m | 247 | 741 |
| 10 | February 16, 2018 00:45 | February 16, 2018 11:45 | 11h | 226 | 1,258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 19 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Breathitt 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 Power Co | 2018 | 10.4 hrs | 2.55 | 8.1 hrs | 2.34 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 9.6 hrs | 2.67 | 4.5 hrs | 2.22 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 13.0 hrs | 4.51 | 7.5 hrs | 3.77 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,915 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. Breathitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Breathitt 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/breathitt-county