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2024 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 18.6 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Kentucky average 9.8 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 543rd 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 Nicholas 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 7, 2024 14:00 | May 7, 2024 22:15 | 8h 15m | 1,647 | 1,671 |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 14:00 | October 1, 2024 16:45 | 4d 2h | 1,458 | 45K |
| 3 | April 12, 2024 14:30 | April 12, 2024 19:30 | 5h | 696 | 527 |
| 4 | June 12, 2024 16:00 | June 12, 2024 17:00 | 1h | 616 | 544 |
| 5 | August 1, 2024 23:15 | August 2, 2024 05:45 | 6h 30m | 505 | 1,970 |
| 6 | February 16, 2024 21:45 | February 17, 2024 00:15 | 2h 30m | 388 | 970 |
| 7 | November 6, 2024 13:45 | November 6, 2024 21:00 | 7h 15m | 374 | 1,137 |
| 8 | April 2, 2024 13:45 | April 2, 2024 17:30 | 3h 45m | 333 | 1,069 |
| 9 | June 24, 2024 13:45 | June 24, 2024 14:45 | 1h | 328 | 328 |
| 10 | May 26, 2024 17:30 | May 28, 2024 17:30 | 2d | 301 | 3,617 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 19 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 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 |
| Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc | 2024 | 13.9 hrs | 2.32 | 3.6 hrs | 1.73 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/nicholas-county