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2023 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 110th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1699th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2023
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 29, 2023 23:45 | July 30, 2023 18:00 | 18h 15m | 724 | 3,059 |
| 2 | July 18, 2023 18:00 | July 19, 2023 02:30 | 8h 30m | 700 | 2,474 |
| 3 | July 28, 2023 16:15 | July 28, 2023 21:30 | 5h 15m | 598 | 931 |
| 4 | November 1, 2023 12:45 | November 1, 2023 14:45 | 2h | 593 | 890 |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 15:45 | July 20, 2023 16:30 | 45m | 582 | 148 |
| 6 | July 21, 2023 04:00 | July 21, 2023 05:00 | 1h | 574 | 574 |
| 7 | May 9, 2023 04:30 | May 9, 2023 16:15 | 11h 45m | 391 | 1,937 |
| 8 | August 3, 2023 13:00 | August 3, 2023 13:45 | 45m | 326 | 245 |
| 9 | January 3, 2023 01:00 | January 3, 2023 05:00 | 4h | 291 | 733 |
| 10 | December 2, 2023 09:00 | December 2, 2023 11:00 | 2h | 284 | 568 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 10.0 hrs | 1.42 | 1.6 hrs | 0.86 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 2.66 | 2.6 hrs | 1.66 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Kentucky's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,230 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. Ballard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ballard County, KY annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/kentucky/ballard-county