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2018 Knott County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Knott County, KY went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 341st 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 Knott 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 31, 2018 17:45 | August 1, 2018 02:45 | 9h | 1,097 | 576 |
| 2 | July 2, 2018 23:45 | July 3, 2018 12:00 | 12h 15m | 1,078 | 8,987 |
| 3 | May 29, 2018 06:00 | May 29, 2018 22:45 | 16h 45m | 1,055 | 6,922 |
| 4 | March 15, 2018 16:00 | March 15, 2018 18:30 | 2h 30m | 1,050 | 534 |
| 5 | May 15, 2018 20:15 | May 16, 2018 11:30 | 15h 15m | 1,041 | 5,857 |
| 6 | September 27, 2018 03:15 | September 28, 2018 21:15 | 1d 18h | 907 | 3,049 |
| 7 | October 21, 2018 02:45 | October 22, 2018 04:15 | 1d 1h | 844 | 8,022 |
| 8 | October 27, 2018 23:15 | October 28, 2018 06:45 | 7h 30m | 718 | 4,743 |
| 9 | April 3, 2018 18:00 | April 6, 2018 20:15 | 3d 2h | 602 | 12K |
| 10 | December 28, 2018 05:30 | December 28, 2018 22:00 | 16h 30m | 594 | 5,632 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 39 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Knott 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 |
| Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 13.0 hrs | 4.51 | 7.5 hrs | 3.77 |
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 ÷ 7,061 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. Knott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knott 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/knott-county