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2018 Meade County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Meade County, KY went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 1920th 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 Meade 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 | November 15, 2018 04:00 | November 18, 2018 01:45 | 2d 21h | 1,400 | 18K |
| 2 | February 20, 2018 23:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 13d 1h | 635 | 4,917 |
| 3 | February 15, 2018 11:00 | February 15, 2018 23:45 | 12h 45m | 576 | 1,771 |
| 4 | June 12, 2018 14:45 | June 13, 2018 07:00 | 16h 15m | 269 | 1,949 |
| 5 | June 22, 2018 15:15 | June 22, 2018 17:30 | 2h 15m | 204 | 310 |
| 6 | July 5, 2018 17:30 | July 5, 2018 19:00 | 1h 30m | 196 | 183 |
| 7 | May 31, 2018 18:30 | June 2, 2018 16:45 | 1d 22h | 99 | 2,404 |
| 8 | December 27, 2018 23:15 | December 28, 2018 11:45 | 12h 30m | 96 | 282 |
| 9 | June 9, 2018 02:15 | June 9, 2018 03:45 | 1h 30m | 81 | 85 |
| 10 | July 21, 2018 02:45 | July 22, 2018 03:00 | 1d | 73 | 1,605 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | 2018 | 8.2 hrs | 1.48 | 86 min | 0.88 |
| Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 12.3 hrs | 3.00 | 65 min | 1.06 |
| Meade County Rural E C C | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 2.03 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| LG&E and KU | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,076 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. Meade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade 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/meade-county