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2021 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 857th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 16, 2021 13:30 | May 16, 2021 20:45 | 7h 15m | 4,899 | 12K |
| 2 | March 28, 2021 09:45 | March 30, 2021 00:30 | 1d 14h | 3,968 | 14K |
| 3 | July 20, 2021 05:45 | July 20, 2021 07:45 | 2h | 3,747 | 5,709 |
| 4 | February 7, 2021 07:45 | February 8, 2021 22:45 | 1d 15h | 1,969 | 17K |
| 5 | April 7, 2021 20:15 | April 8, 2021 01:15 | 5h | 1,299 | 809 |
| 6 | February 15, 2021 23:45 | February 17, 2021 21:30 | 1d 21h | 1,194 | 4,949 |
| 7 | February 13, 2021 14:15 | February 13, 2021 20:15 | 6h | 1,165 | 680 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 11:30 | December 12, 2021 10:00 | 22h 30m | 1,031 | 8,894 |
| 9 | June 13, 2021 16:15 | June 13, 2021 23:30 | 7h 15m | 960 | 1,875 |
| 10 | December 18, 2021 15:30 | December 18, 2021 19:30 | 4h | 936 | 1,623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 54 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Bell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.17 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2021 | 16.2 hrs | 3.74 | 4.6 hrs | 2.41 |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,248 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. Bell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell County, KY annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/kentucky/bell-county