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2022 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Kentucky average 5.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 615th 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 Nicholas 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 | June 17, 2022 16:15 | June 18, 2022 23:45 | 1d 7h | 1,274 | 12K |
| 2 | January 8, 2022 05:00 | January 9, 2022 11:00 | 1d 6h | 1,122 | 3,164 |
| 3 | November 16, 2022 09:30 | November 16, 2022 12:30 | 3h | 873 | 2,401 |
| 4 | February 17, 2022 14:30 | February 17, 2022 15:15 | 45m | 676 | 169 |
| 5 | July 8, 2022 12:15 | July 9, 2022 00:00 | 11h 45m | 513 | 1,554 |
| 6 | March 29, 2022 16:15 | March 29, 2022 17:45 | 1h 30m | 481 | 607 |
| 7 | November 22, 2022 09:15 | November 22, 2022 15:15 | 6h | 329 | 656 |
| 8 | January 27, 2022 03:30 | January 27, 2022 15:00 | 11h 30m | 299 | 2,153 |
| 9 | June 7, 2022 00:30 | June 7, 2022 01:30 | 1h | 266 | 67 |
| 10 | June 22, 2022 16:30 | June 23, 2022 06:30 | 14h | 254 | 1,430 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 17 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2022 | 4.3 hrs | 1.93 | 3.2 hrs | 1.68 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 1.75 | 3.0 hrs | 1.44 |
| 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 94% of Kentucky's customers in 2022; 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, 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/nicholas-county