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2018 Laurel County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Laurel County, KY went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 2199th 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 Laurel 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 | February 12, 2018 16:00 | February 12, 2018 20:45 | 4h 45m | 3,378 | 4,987 |
| 2 | July 20, 2018 20:30 | July 21, 2018 16:45 | 20h 15m | 2,080 | 12K |
| 3 | January 2, 2018 11:30 | January 2, 2018 15:00 | 3h 30m | 1,411 | 1,903 |
| 4 | August 15, 2018 17:45 | August 15, 2018 19:00 | 1h 15m | 1,388 | 1,044 |
| 5 | July 6, 2018 00:15 | July 7, 2018 01:15 | 1d 1h | 1,382 | 7,151 |
| 6 | October 21, 2018 21:30 | October 21, 2018 23:00 | 1h 30m | 1,185 | 1,749 |
| 7 | December 9, 2018 13:30 | December 10, 2018 02:15 | 12h 45m | 1,174 | 3,513 |
| 8 | August 31, 2018 21:45 | September 1, 2018 02:00 | 4h 15m | 312 | 702 |
| 9 | May 19, 2018 01:45 | May 19, 2018 04:15 | 2h 30m | 303 | 461 |
| 10 | August 16, 2018 16:00 | August 17, 2018 02:45 | 10h 45m | 270 | 527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Laurel 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 |
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 9.6 hrs | 2.67 | 4.5 hrs | 2.22 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 4.8 hrs | 2.19 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 3.23 | 4.9 hrs | 2.64 |
| 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 ÷ 35,907 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. Laurel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurel 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/laurel-county