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2018 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 7,298 customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 1836th 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 Nicholas 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 2, 2018 22:15 | November 3, 2018 00:45 | 2h 30m | 619 | 1,370 |
| 2 | July 5, 2018 21:45 | July 6, 2018 02:15 | 4h 30m | 331 | 450 |
| 3 | August 17, 2018 07:45 | August 17, 2018 16:00 | 8h 15m | 274 | 279 |
| 4 | May 16, 2018 02:00 | May 16, 2018 05:15 | 3h 15m | 175 | 369 |
| 5 | July 7, 2018 22:30 | July 7, 2018 23:30 | 1h | 166 | 132 |
| 6 | April 12, 2018 19:00 | April 12, 2018 21:00 | 2h | 127 | 252 |
| 7 | May 31, 2018 20:30 | June 1, 2018 09:30 | 13h | 99 | 300 |
| 8 | October 5, 2018 14:00 | October 5, 2018 16:45 | 2h 45m | 99 | 172 |
| 9 | May 17, 2018 05:15 | May 17, 2018 07:00 | 1h 45m | 98 | 172 |
| 10 | October 6, 2018 01:45 | October 6, 2018 03:30 | 1h 45m | 95 | 166 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.62 | 2.6 hrs | 1.12 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.03 | 2.1 hrs | 0.87 |
| 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 ÷ 3,502 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county