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2023 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 951st 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 Bell 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 | March 3, 2023 22:00 | March 6, 2023 21:45 | 2d 23h | 2,860 | 48K |
| 2 | March 22, 2023 01:45 | March 22, 2023 04:45 | 3h | 1,888 | 1,934 |
| 3 | January 8, 2023 09:00 | January 8, 2023 11:30 | 2h 30m | 1,443 | 2,744 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 17:30 | April 3, 2023 17:30 | 2d | 1,115 | 20K |
| 5 | August 26, 2023 00:30 | August 26, 2023 06:00 | 5h 30m | 838 | 1,076 |
| 6 | March 1, 2023 09:00 | March 1, 2023 10:45 | 1h 45m | 825 | 880 |
| 7 | March 24, 2023 23:15 | March 25, 2023 00:30 | 1h 15m | 824 | 654 |
| 8 | December 6, 2023 16:30 | December 7, 2023 01:00 | 8h 30m | 634 | 2,344 |
| 9 | May 7, 2023 17:45 | May 8, 2023 09:30 | 15h 45m | 517 | 1,915 |
| 10 | December 9, 2023 11:30 | December 9, 2023 18:45 | 7h 15m | 450 | 718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 45 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 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2023 | 12.3 hrs | 3.58 | 5.7 hrs | 2.73 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/bell-county