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2018 Martin County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Martin County, KY went without power for an average of 17.0 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 333rd 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 Martin 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 | January 12, 2018 18:30 | January 13, 2018 04:15 | 9h 45m | 2,717 | 2,169 |
| 2 | September 27, 2018 13:15 | September 27, 2018 20:30 | 7h 15m | 1,232 | 1,007 |
| 3 | July 4, 2018 23:00 | July 6, 2018 11:45 | 1d 12h | 1,226 | 7,985 |
| 4 | August 21, 2018 12:15 | August 21, 2018 21:15 | 9h | 1,173 | 4,817 |
| 5 | July 1, 2018 23:00 | July 2, 2018 19:00 | 20h | 1,031 | 3,197 |
| 6 | September 27, 2018 07:00 | September 27, 2018 12:30 | 5h 30m | 936 | 3,066 |
| 7 | May 7, 2018 06:45 | May 7, 2018 12:15 | 5h 30m | 932 | 2,384 |
| 8 | July 20, 2018 22:30 | July 22, 2018 19:15 | 1d 20h | 872 | 20K |
| 9 | September 23, 2018 22:45 | September 24, 2018 23:15 | 1d | 815 | 3,599 |
| 10 | September 20, 2018 04:30 | September 20, 2018 12:00 | 7h 30m | 779 | 4,823 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 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 Martin 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 ÷ 6,097 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county