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2020 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 1534th 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 Nicholas 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 03:30 | April 9, 2020 17:00 | 13h 30m | 1,155 | 3,168 |
| 2 | August 20, 2020 14:15 | August 20, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 682 | 171 |
| 3 | July 31, 2020 00:45 | July 31, 2020 03:30 | 2h 45m | 565 | 634 |
| 4 | July 20, 2020 21:00 | July 21, 2020 06:15 | 9h 15m | 471 | 870 |
| 5 | August 6, 2020 00:30 | August 6, 2020 03:15 | 2h 45m | 406 | 1,014 |
| 6 | July 20, 2020 18:30 | July 20, 2020 19:30 | 1h | 306 | 215 |
| 7 | June 8, 2020 15:30 | June 8, 2020 16:15 | 45m | 305 | 229 |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 16:45 | November 15, 2020 23:15 | 6h 30m | 189 | 714 |
| 9 | February 5, 2020 03:30 | February 5, 2020 12:45 | 9h 15m | 144 | 760 |
| 10 | June 10, 2020 21:45 | June 11, 2020 19:45 | 22h | 134 | 935 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2020 | 5.3 hrs | 1.33 | 2.1 hrs | 0.81 |
| Kentucky (statewide) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,502 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county