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2018 Powell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Powell County, KY went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 739th 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 Powell 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 | March 12, 2018 05:30 | March 15, 2018 00:15 | 2d 18h | 1,845 | 51K |
| 2 | April 26, 2018 16:30 | April 26, 2018 17:30 | 1h | 851 | 215 |
| 3 | May 25, 2018 15:15 | May 25, 2018 15:45 | 30m | 847 | 214 |
| 4 | June 26, 2018 15:00 | June 26, 2018 19:45 | 4h 45m | 657 | 1,857 |
| 5 | January 28, 2018 15:45 | January 28, 2018 16:00 | 15m | 514 | 129 |
| 6 | January 27, 2018 23:15 | January 28, 2018 00:15 | 1h | 500 | 417 |
| 7 | June 9, 2018 20:30 | June 10, 2018 07:45 | 11h 15m | 449 | 1,179 |
| 8 | May 31, 2018 17:30 | May 31, 2018 20:00 | 2h 30m | 416 | 313 |
| 9 | March 24, 2018 17:00 | March 25, 2018 00:15 | 7h 15m | 267 | 798 |
| 10 | April 22, 2018 13:15 | April 22, 2018 14:45 | 1h 30m | 224 | 230 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 12 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 Powell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 9.6 hrs | 2.67 | 4.5 hrs | 2.22 |
| Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 2.25 | 2.2 hrs | 1.16 |
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 ÷ 8,244 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. Powell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powell 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/powell-county