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2020 Nelson County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nelson County, KY went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2262nd 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 Nelson 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 | October 21, 2020 16:15 | October 21, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 1,788 | 447 |
| 2 | October 5, 2020 11:15 | October 5, 2020 13:15 | 2h | 1,412 | 1,823 |
| 3 | May 30, 2020 11:30 | May 30, 2020 13:15 | 1h 45m | 1,106 | 1,632 |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 10:15 | November 15, 2020 16:45 | 6h 30m | 1,074 | 823 |
| 5 | April 14, 2020 20:45 | April 14, 2020 22:15 | 1h 30m | 1,071 | 881 |
| 6 | October 9, 2020 04:30 | October 9, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 1,006 | 828 |
| 7 | June 15, 2020 13:45 | June 15, 2020 18:15 | 4h 30m | 976 | 513 |
| 8 | July 17, 2020 16:30 | July 17, 2020 19:30 | 3h | 594 | 473 |
| 9 | October 16, 2020 20:15 | October 17, 2020 01:30 | 5h 15m | 593 | 691 |
| 10 | April 9, 2020 06:00 | April 9, 2020 21:15 | 15h 15m | 581 | 2,356 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 178 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Nelson 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2020 | 3.2 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.52 | 88 min | 0.95 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.99 | 86 min | 0.88 |
| City of Bardstown - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 22,386 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county