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2020 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1878th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2020
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 9, 2020 00:15 | April 9, 2020 05:30 | 5h 15m | 574 | 1,795 |
| 2 | March 18, 2020 22:00 | March 18, 2020 22:45 | 45m | 571 | 401 |
| 3 | September 14, 2020 08:00 | September 14, 2020 11:15 | 3h 15m | 555 | 145 |
| 4 | September 12, 2020 19:00 | September 12, 2020 20:00 | 1h | 553 | 277 |
| 5 | July 20, 2020 19:45 | July 21, 2020 01:15 | 5h 30m | 532 | 444 |
| 6 | May 25, 2020 22:45 | May 26, 2020 04:00 | 5h 15m | 357 | 1,515 |
| 7 | November 25, 2020 01:15 | November 25, 2020 03:00 | 1h 45m | 307 | 537 |
| 8 | March 6, 2020 16:15 | March 6, 2020 17:30 | 1h 15m | 263 | 329 |
| 9 | March 5, 2020 18:45 | March 5, 2020 20:00 | 1h 15m | 228 | 285 |
| 10 | June 21, 2020 14:15 | June 21, 2020 16:45 | 2h 30m | 221 | 551 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.38 | 1.6 hrs | 1.31 |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,230 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. Ballard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ballard County, KY annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/kentucky/ballard-county