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2019 Spencer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Spencer County, KY went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Kentucky average 3.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 916th 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 Spencer 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 13, 2019 15:30 | September 13, 2019 16:45 | 1h 15m | 2,518 | 3,148 |
| 2 | March 11, 2019 04:15 | March 17, 2019 03:15 | 5d 23h | 2,337 | 8,825 |
| 3 | May 17, 2019 21:30 | May 18, 2019 06:00 | 8h 30m | 1,570 | 4,691 |
| 4 | January 21, 2019 05:45 | January 21, 2019 14:15 | 8h 30m | 1,167 | 608 |
| 5 | March 30, 2019 15:45 | March 31, 2019 13:30 | 21h 45m | 948 | 1,335 |
| 6 | June 23, 2019 19:15 | June 24, 2019 18:15 | 23h | 917 | 4,424 |
| 7 | December 17, 2019 15:15 | December 17, 2019 19:30 | 4h 15m | 900 | 3,034 |
| 8 | May 28, 2019 13:30 | May 28, 2019 13:45 | 15m | 845 | 211 |
| 9 | April 11, 2019 17:45 | April 11, 2019 19:30 | 1h 45m | 725 | 183 |
| 10 | April 18, 2019 16:15 | April 18, 2019 17:00 | 45m | 725 | 544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 47 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Spencer 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 |
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 ÷ 8,434 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. Spencer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spencer 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/spencer-county