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2022 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 988th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2022 22:30 | December 24, 2022 21:30 | 23h | 2,862 | 4,521 |
| 2 | July 12, 2022 22:45 | July 14, 2022 18:45 | 1d 20h | 2,859 | 13K |
| 3 | August 9, 2022 18:15 | August 10, 2022 05:00 | 10h 45m | 1,046 | 4,024 |
| 4 | August 26, 2022 23:45 | August 27, 2022 03:15 | 3h 30m | 1,000 | 1,817 |
| 5 | June 17, 2022 17:45 | June 21, 2022 00:30 | 3d 6h | 977 | 13K |
| 6 | March 30, 2022 18:15 | April 1, 2022 04:00 | 1d 9h | 908 | 7,822 |
| 7 | July 5, 2022 22:00 | July 6, 2022 22:45 | 1d | 823 | 1,250 |
| 8 | January 17, 2022 12:15 | January 19, 2022 22:30 | 2d 10h | 634 | 801 |
| 9 | May 1, 2022 09:45 | May 1, 2022 21:00 | 11h 15m | 632 | 966 |
| 10 | January 20, 2022 01:30 | January 20, 2022 03:00 | 1h 30m | 630 | 618 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 55 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 4.2 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2022 | 17.5 hrs | 4.40 | 4.8 hrs | 2.70 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 94% of Kentucky's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/kentucky/bell-county