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2024 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 13.0 hours, a total of 159K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 745th 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 Bell 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 | January 9, 2024 05:45 | January 10, 2024 00:30 | 18h 45m | 3,773 | 2,834 |
| 2 | July 30, 2024 09:00 | July 31, 2024 06:15 | 21h 15m | 3,724 | 1,934 |
| 3 | April 12, 2024 18:45 | April 13, 2024 01:30 | 6h 45m | 3,020 | 4,418 |
| 4 | September 27, 2024 08:45 | October 2, 2024 00:45 | 4d 16h | 2,567 | 55K |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 18:30 | May 30, 2024 06:45 | 3d 12h | 1,381 | 29K |
| 6 | August 10, 2024 02:45 | August 10, 2024 03:00 | 15m | 1,109 | 277 |
| 7 | May 9, 2024 01:30 | May 9, 2024 15:45 | 14h 15m | 1,008 | 2,698 |
| 8 | July 31, 2024 16:30 | August 4, 2024 07:30 | 3d 15h | 958 | 24K |
| 9 | August 28, 2024 23:30 | August 29, 2024 06:00 | 6h 30m | 905 | 1,726 |
| 10 | August 18, 2024 00:15 | August 18, 2024 08:15 | 8h | 903 | 1,277 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 55 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2024 | 19.6 hrs | 4.81 | 8.4 hrs | 3.48 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/bell-county