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2019 Shelby County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Shelby County, KY went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1690th 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 Shelby 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 | September 24, 2019 12:45 | September 24, 2019 18:30 | 5h 45m | 1,301 | 992 |
| 2 | November 5, 2019 19:45 | November 5, 2019 20:15 | 30m | 1,298 | 330 |
| 3 | September 15, 2019 12:00 | September 15, 2019 20:45 | 8h 45m | 1,296 | 1,632 |
| 4 | March 11, 2019 04:15 | March 16, 2019 19:15 | 5d 15h | 1,250 | 12K |
| 5 | December 13, 2019 16:15 | December 13, 2019 17:15 | 1h | 1,187 | 595 |
| 6 | June 23, 2019 18:30 | June 25, 2019 05:30 | 1d 11h | 993 | 7,283 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 12:45 | November 28, 2019 01:00 | 12h 15m | 972 | 4,866 |
| 8 | August 28, 2019 02:30 | August 28, 2019 10:45 | 8h 15m | 869 | 1,045 |
| 9 | March 26, 2019 13:30 | March 26, 2019 22:45 | 9h 15m | 865 | 1,409 |
| 10 | September 13, 2019 15:30 | September 13, 2019 16:45 | 1h 15m | 701 | 876 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 52 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 Shelby 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 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 5.6 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 |
| Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY) | 2018 | 6.5 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | 2018 | 8.2 hrs | 1.48 | 86 min | 0.88 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Frankfort - (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 ÷ 23,928 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. Shelby County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shelby 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/shelby-county