County annual report · FIPS 21207
2018 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Russell County, KY went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 7,173 customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.7 hours). That ranks 104th worst of 118 Kentucky counties and 2456th 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 Russell 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 5, 2018 13:45 | July 5, 2018 16:30 | 2h 45m | 698 | 1,746 |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 06:45 | April 4, 2018 13:45 | 7h | 532 | 561 |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 15:30 | December 10, 2018 02:45 | 11h 15m | 391 | 989 |
| 4 | October 21, 2018 20:00 | October 21, 2018 22:45 | 2h 45m | 341 | 797 |
| 5 | May 12, 2018 20:30 | May 12, 2018 21:15 | 45m | 336 | 252 |
| 6 | December 10, 2018 14:00 | December 10, 2018 16:45 | 2h 45m | 314 | 251 |
| 7 | March 24, 2018 18:15 | March 24, 2018 21:30 | 3h 15m | 159 | 336 |
| 8 | July 28, 2018 19:30 | July 28, 2018 21:15 | 1h 45m | 124 | 217 |
| 9 | November 17, 2018 18:30 | November 17, 2018 19:00 | 30m | 110 | 55 |
| 10 | May 11, 2018 19:00 | May 12, 2018 00:15 | 5h 15m | 78 | 120 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 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 Russell 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 4.8 hrs | 2.19 |
| Taylor County Rural E C C | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.60 | 87 min | 1.30 |
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 ÷ 11,596 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. Russell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county