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2021 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Kentucky average 10.4 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 675th 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 Nicholas 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 | July 9, 2021 14:45 | July 9, 2021 15:45 | 1h | 1,128 | 1,014 |
| 2 | February 11, 2021 03:30 | February 14, 2021 03:30 | 3d | 856 | 13K |
| 3 | February 23, 2021 16:45 | February 23, 2021 20:15 | 3h 30m | 726 | 935 |
| 4 | April 8, 2021 21:15 | April 8, 2021 23:45 | 2h 30m | 683 | 1,367 |
| 5 | September 28, 2021 16:30 | September 28, 2021 20:00 | 3h 30m | 677 | 340 |
| 6 | August 27, 2021 00:30 | August 27, 2021 11:45 | 11h 15m | 676 | 7,605 |
| 7 | February 28, 2021 11:00 | February 28, 2021 15:30 | 4h 30m | 384 | 1,728 |
| 8 | November 14, 2021 22:45 | November 15, 2021 03:15 | 4h 30m | 365 | 953 |
| 9 | November 22, 2021 18:15 | November 22, 2021 19:15 | 1h | 359 | 270 |
| 10 | November 15, 2021 15:45 | November 15, 2021 16:00 | 15m | 358 | 90 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 25 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 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2021 | 4.2 hrs | 1.49 | 2.6 hrs | 1.27 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2021 | 7.4 hrs | 1.48 | 2.6 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/nicholas-county