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2019 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1166th 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 Bell 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 | August 16, 2019 13:30 | August 16, 2019 21:45 | 8h 15m | 2,312 | 3,570 |
| 2 | January 22, 2019 17:45 | January 22, 2019 20:00 | 2h 15m | 1,586 | 2,656 |
| 3 | January 6, 2019 13:45 | January 6, 2019 18:15 | 4h 30m | 1,181 | 1,159 |
| 4 | July 19, 2019 11:15 | July 19, 2019 16:00 | 4h 45m | 1,177 | 423 |
| 5 | June 7, 2019 09:30 | June 7, 2019 15:45 | 6h 15m | 1,078 | 1,390 |
| 6 | July 2, 2019 18:45 | July 3, 2019 05:45 | 11h | 873 | 6,189 |
| 7 | January 10, 2019 02:15 | January 10, 2019 04:15 | 2h | 654 | 810 |
| 8 | January 1, 2019 00:00 | January 1, 2019 08:15 | 8h 15m | 642 | 756 |
| 9 | May 3, 2019 19:30 | May 3, 2019 21:30 | 2h | 631 | 294 |
| 10 | September 5, 2019 17:15 | September 5, 2019 21:15 | 4h | 555 | 699 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Bell 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 3.23 | 4.9 hrs | 2.64 |
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 ÷ 12,248 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. Bell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell 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/bell-county