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2018 Lee County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lee County, KY went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 457th 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 Lee 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 21, 2018 00:45 | July 21, 2018 21:45 | 21h | 2,273 | 13K |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 00:30 | November 15, 2018 04:00 | 3h 30m | 1,850 | 6,473 |
| 3 | July 11, 2018 15:30 | July 11, 2018 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,424 | 362 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 05:30 | April 5, 2018 02:00 | 20h 30m | 1,406 | 4,157 |
| 5 | January 13, 2018 22:00 | January 13, 2018 23:45 | 1h 45m | 806 | 1,289 |
| 6 | August 21, 2018 18:00 | August 21, 2018 20:45 | 2h 45m | 737 | 644 |
| 7 | August 21, 2018 00:30 | August 21, 2018 09:45 | 9h 15m | 727 | 290 |
| 8 | October 25, 2018 13:30 | October 25, 2018 18:00 | 4h 30m | 683 | 843 |
| 9 | May 16, 2018 00:30 | May 16, 2018 04:30 | 4h | 678 | 1,593 |
| 10 | November 24, 2018 19:45 | November 24, 2018 21:00 | 1h 15m | 670 | 838 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 31 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 Lee 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 |
| Licking Valley Rural E C C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,961 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county