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2019 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 809th 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 Nicholas 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 11, 2019 06:15 | August 11, 2019 07:00 | 45m | 1,105 | 609 |
| 2 | May 11, 2019 05:45 | May 11, 2019 07:45 | 2h | 662 | 1,323 |
| 3 | July 14, 2019 22:45 | July 15, 2019 09:45 | 11h | 588 | 2,447 |
| 4 | July 15, 2019 17:15 | July 15, 2019 23:00 | 5h 45m | 588 | 2,104 |
| 5 | June 13, 2019 13:15 | June 14, 2019 00:30 | 11h 15m | 374 | 510 |
| 6 | June 16, 2019 11:45 | June 18, 2019 00:15 | 1d 12h | 358 | 1,855 |
| 7 | May 20, 2019 07:30 | May 20, 2019 11:15 | 3h 45m | 346 | 1,294 |
| 8 | August 6, 2019 23:30 | August 7, 2019 15:30 | 16h | 270 | 942 |
| 9 | April 19, 2019 05:45 | April 19, 2019 07:45 | 2h | 264 | 400 |
| 10 | May 19, 2019 14:45 | May 19, 2019 18:30 | 3h 45m | 208 | 315 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 18 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.03 | 2.1 hrs | 0.87 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,502 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county