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2023 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 17.1 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Kentucky average 14.9 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 498th 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 Nicholas 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 | October 5, 2023 14:00 | October 5, 2023 14:30 | 30m | 1,650 | 825 |
| 2 | October 29, 2023 20:30 | October 29, 2023 23:15 | 2h 45m | 1,081 | 1,825 |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 22:15 | March 7, 2023 23:30 | 4d 1h | 977 | 36K |
| 4 | December 27, 2023 14:15 | December 27, 2023 16:30 | 2h 15m | 697 | 1,568 |
| 5 | January 3, 2023 05:45 | January 3, 2023 19:15 | 13h 30m | 624 | 2,593 |
| 6 | February 9, 2023 19:45 | February 10, 2023 01:45 | 6h | 507 | 2,953 |
| 7 | November 27, 2023 03:15 | November 27, 2023 08:45 | 5h 30m | 501 | 2,756 |
| 8 | August 25, 2023 20:00 | August 26, 2023 10:45 | 14h 45m | 402 | 1,342 |
| 9 | December 12, 2023 23:15 | December 13, 2023 03:30 | 4h 15m | 242 | 1,029 |
| 10 | July 27, 2023 22:15 | July 28, 2023 23:00 | 1d | 212 | 1,445 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 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 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2023 | 20.6 hrs | 2.38 | 4.2 hrs | 1.84 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 1.90 | 3.3 hrs | 1.53 |
| 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 n/a of Kentucky's customers in 2023; 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, 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/nicholas-county