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2024 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1137th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 26, 2024 13:00 | May 28, 2024 02:15 | 1d 13h | 2,750 | 18K |
| 2 | January 12, 2024 08:45 | January 13, 2024 03:00 | 18h 15m | 1,807 | 4,288 |
| 3 | November 3, 2024 11:15 | November 3, 2024 16:45 | 5h 30m | 366 | 2,008 |
| 4 | April 17, 2024 14:15 | April 17, 2024 15:30 | 1h 15m | 360 | 450 |
| 5 | August 16, 2024 01:45 | August 16, 2024 06:15 | 4h 30m | 336 | 847 |
| 6 | July 31, 2024 01:15 | July 31, 2024 08:15 | 7h | 285 | 1,000 |
| 7 | April 2, 2024 10:15 | April 2, 2024 17:30 | 7h 15m | 268 | 615 |
| 8 | June 21, 2024 03:30 | June 21, 2024 04:15 | 45m | 266 | 200 |
| 9 | July 25, 2024 23:30 | July 26, 2024 03:30 | 4h | 167 | 416 |
| 10 | June 6, 2024 13:15 | June 6, 2024 14:15 | 1h | 148 | 60 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 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 Ballard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 21.9 hrs | 1.97 | 1.9 hrs | 1.03 |
| Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation | 2024 | 5.3 hrs | 1.59 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 |
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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/kentucky/ballard-county