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2018 Fayette County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fayette County, KY went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 1.9M customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 498th 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 Fayette 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 | July 20, 2018 12:15 | July 26, 2018 06:45 | 5d 18h | 58,693 | 1.6M |
| 2 | August 2, 2018 12:45 | August 3, 2018 00:15 | 11h 30m | 11,764 | 18K |
| 3 | August 22, 2018 12:00 | August 22, 2018 20:15 | 8h 15m | 11,761 | 3,000 |
| 4 | May 18, 2018 19:30 | May 19, 2018 08:15 | 12h 45m | 9,749 | 22K |
| 5 | December 16, 2018 16:15 | December 17, 2018 01:00 | 8h 45m | 6,651 | 8,007 |
| 6 | June 22, 2018 19:45 | June 23, 2018 10:30 | 14h 45m | 6,067 | 16K |
| 7 | March 16, 2018 06:45 | March 16, 2018 07:00 | 15m | 5,985 | 1,496 |
| 8 | May 31, 2018 12:45 | June 2, 2018 04:15 | 1d 15h | 4,850 | 18K |
| 9 | July 31, 2018 10:00 | August 1, 2018 06:00 | 20h | 4,591 | 1,511 |
| 10 | October 20, 2018 17:15 | October 22, 2018 00:00 | 1d 6h | 3,817 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 120 reached 100+ customers, 45 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Fayette 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.62 | 2.6 hrs | 1.12 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 2.25 | 2.2 hrs | 1.16 |
| 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 ÷ 170,657 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county