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2024 Nelson County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Nelson County, KY went without power for an average of 23.0 hours, a total of 514K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 432nd 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 Nelson 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 | September 27, 2024 11:45 | October 1, 2024 17:30 | 4d 5h | 2,906 | 19K |
| 2 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 4, 2024 15:30 | 11d 6h | 2,694 | 31K |
| 3 | December 26, 2024 13:00 | December 26, 2024 13:15 | 15m | 2,280 | 570 |
| 4 | July 15, 2024 20:45 | August 14, 2024 02:30 | 29d 5h | 2,147 | 82K |
| 5 | June 15, 2024 12:30 | July 4, 2024 23:45 | 19d 11h | 2,009 | 257K |
| 6 | December 2, 2024 14:15 | December 2, 2024 16:15 | 2h | 2,002 | 2,003 |
| 7 | February 18, 2024 01:00 | February 18, 2024 01:45 | 45m | 1,958 | 748 |
| 8 | April 22, 2024 01:15 | April 22, 2024 02:45 | 1h 30m | 1,861 | 1,861 |
| 9 | February 11, 2024 23:15 | February 12, 2024 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,851 | 926 |
| 10 | June 6, 2024 12:45 | June 15, 2024 05:15 | 8d 16h | 1,776 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 55 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Nelson 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 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2024 | 9.9 hrs | 2.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.52 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.91 | 1.9 hrs | 1.17 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.60 |
| City of Bardstown - (KY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,386 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. Nelson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nelson 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/nelson-county