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2019 Russell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Russell County, KY went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1653rd 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 Russell 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 | April 30, 2019 19:45 | April 30, 2019 20:45 | 1h | 1,593 | 1,593 |
| 2 | December 19, 2019 05:00 | December 19, 2019 10:45 | 5h 45m | 1,550 | 4,277 |
| 3 | December 19, 2019 15:30 | December 19, 2019 20:15 | 4h 45m | 1,465 | 750 |
| 4 | June 22, 2019 02:15 | June 24, 2019 02:15 | 2d | 1,413 | 15K |
| 5 | October 9, 2019 21:30 | October 9, 2019 23:15 | 1h 45m | 1,263 | 347 |
| 6 | November 28, 2019 18:15 | November 28, 2019 20:30 | 2h 15m | 817 | 971 |
| 7 | November 21, 2019 15:30 | November 21, 2019 17:00 | 1h 30m | 480 | 440 |
| 8 | September 24, 2019 15:00 | September 24, 2019 16:45 | 1h 45m | 408 | 216 |
| 9 | May 3, 2019 18:00 | May 3, 2019 19:00 | 1h | 396 | 99 |
| 10 | July 19, 2019 18:15 | July 19, 2019 19:00 | 45m | 390 | 184 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 30 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 Russell 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 |
| 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 92% of Kentucky's customers in 2019; 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, 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/russell-county