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2018 Carter County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Carter County, KY went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 1180th 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 Carter 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 29, 2018 01:00 | March 29, 2018 05:00 | 4h | 2,507 | 6,681 |
| 2 | March 22, 2018 12:30 | March 22, 2018 14:45 | 2h 15m | 1,799 | 1,901 |
| 3 | October 21, 2018 01:15 | October 21, 2018 23:15 | 22h | 1,134 | 4,040 |
| 4 | July 31, 2018 11:15 | July 31, 2018 22:15 | 11h | 1,067 | 5,016 |
| 5 | July 16, 2018 22:15 | July 17, 2018 01:30 | 3h 15m | 976 | 1,469 |
| 6 | November 24, 2018 07:15 | November 24, 2018 10:00 | 2h 45m | 687 | 705 |
| 7 | October 26, 2018 21:45 | October 27, 2018 02:15 | 4h 30m | 551 | 1,125 |
| 8 | May 17, 2018 22:45 | May 18, 2018 01:45 | 3h | 507 | 1,400 |
| 9 | June 27, 2018 15:00 | June 27, 2018 16:00 | 1h | 430 | 430 |
| 10 | May 24, 2018 09:30 | May 24, 2018 13:45 | 4h 15m | 427 | 757 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 36 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Carter 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 |
| Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 6.3 hrs | 3.03 | 6.3 hrs | 3.03 |
| City of Olive Hill - (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 ÷ 12,835 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. Carter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carter 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/carter-county