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2018 Franklin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, KY went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 1140th 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 Franklin 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 19:30 | July 24, 2018 19:45 | 4d | 4,052 | 85K |
| 2 | June 26, 2018 15:00 | June 27, 2018 14:45 | 23h 45m | 1,849 | 5,112 |
| 3 | February 27, 2018 04:00 | February 27, 2018 08:00 | 4h | 857 | 968 |
| 4 | July 26, 2018 17:00 | July 26, 2018 18:00 | 1h | 851 | 639 |
| 5 | July 20, 2018 13:15 | July 20, 2018 16:45 | 3h 30m | 673 | 745 |
| 6 | October 20, 2018 21:00 | October 21, 2018 21:15 | 1d | 669 | 3,483 |
| 7 | November 15, 2018 07:45 | November 15, 2018 20:00 | 12h 15m | 513 | 2,532 |
| 8 | July 2, 2018 20:00 | July 3, 2018 03:15 | 7h 15m | 469 | 1,422 |
| 9 | July 20, 2018 10:15 | July 20, 2018 12:15 | 2h | 394 | 483 |
| 10 | December 28, 2018 01:30 | December 28, 2018 10:00 | 8h 30m | 308 | 764 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 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 Franklin 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 |
| Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY) | 2018 | 6.5 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| City of Frankfort - (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 ÷ 25,840 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county