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2019 Nelson County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Nelson County, KY went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 2079th 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 Nelson 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 16:30 | March 16, 2019 20:45 | 2d 4h | 1,661 | 15K |
| 2 | February 17, 2019 00:15 | February 17, 2019 01:30 | 1h 15m | 1,501 | 485 |
| 3 | September 13, 2019 14:30 | September 13, 2019 21:45 | 7h 15m | 781 | 997 |
| 4 | November 12, 2019 21:30 | November 13, 2019 01:30 | 4h | 713 | 923 |
| 5 | May 2, 2019 14:00 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 66d 12h | 564 | 9,294 |
| 6 | March 2, 2019 20:00 | March 2, 2019 22:30 | 2h 30m | 482 | 1,205 |
| 7 | April 21, 2019 16:00 | April 21, 2019 21:45 | 5h 45m | 480 | 226 |
| 8 | September 24, 2019 19:00 | September 25, 2019 00:45 | 5h 45m | 465 | 278 |
| 9 | March 21, 2019 17:15 | March 21, 2019 20:45 | 3h 30m | 353 | 93 |
| 10 | August 19, 2019 21:15 | August 19, 2019 23:30 | 2h 15m | 337 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 27 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 Nelson 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.62 | 2.6 hrs | 1.12 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2018 | 9.1 hrs | 2.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 5.6 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 |
| City of Bardstown - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,386 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county