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2018 Butler County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Butler County, KY went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 1310th 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 Butler 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 | March 15, 2018 02:45 | March 15, 2018 03:30 | 45m | 5,977 | 2,990 |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 00:45 | November 16, 2018 03:15 | 1d 2h | 1,685 | 12K |
| 3 | March 12, 2018 06:30 | March 13, 2018 01:00 | 18h 30m | 706 | 1,688 |
| 4 | October 18, 2018 13:00 | October 18, 2018 13:30 | 30m | 660 | 268 |
| 5 | June 27, 2018 21:00 | June 27, 2018 21:45 | 45m | 601 | 450 |
| 6 | January 2, 2018 14:15 | January 2, 2018 14:45 | 30m | 340 | 169 |
| 7 | May 31, 2018 18:15 | May 31, 2018 20:45 | 2h 30m | 303 | 495 |
| 8 | October 7, 2018 07:30 | October 7, 2018 07:45 | 15m | 298 | 75 |
| 9 | June 8, 2018 14:15 | June 8, 2018 16:00 | 1h 45m | 295 | 323 |
| 10 | July 10, 2018 02:15 | July 10, 2018 04:15 | 2h | 295 | 296 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 21 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 Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 6.2 hrs | 3.37 | 3.6 hrs | 2.32 |
| Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 5.5 hrs | 2.65 | 2.2 hrs | 2.12 |
| 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 78% of Kentucky's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,824 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. Butler County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler 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/butler-county