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2019 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 317th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2019
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 14, 2019 11:45 | March 15, 2019 14:15 | 1d 2h | 2,558 | 12K |
| 2 | June 21, 2019 22:15 | June 25, 2019 00:30 | 3d 2h | 1,941 | 29K |
| 3 | August 20, 2019 21:00 | August 21, 2019 05:15 | 8h 15m | 626 | 1,521 |
| 4 | July 14, 2019 01:15 | July 14, 2019 16:30 | 15h 15m | 503 | 2,837 |
| 5 | June 16, 2019 23:45 | June 17, 2019 02:30 | 2h 45m | 351 | 653 |
| 6 | July 15, 2019 16:45 | July 15, 2019 17:00 | 15m | 266 | 67 |
| 7 | November 7, 2019 17:45 | November 7, 2019 18:00 | 15m | 265 | 66 |
| 8 | February 6, 2019 13:15 | February 6, 2019 14:15 | 1h | 229 | 73 |
| 9 | February 16, 2019 04:30 | February 16, 2019 07:15 | 2h 45m | 170 | 180 |
| 10 | February 21, 2019 21:30 | March 11, 2019 18:00 | 17d 20h | 163 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 2.15 | 2.0 hrs | 1.38 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 92% of Kentucky's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,230 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. Ballard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ballard County, KY annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/kentucky/ballard-county