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2025 Ballard County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ballard County, KY went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Kentucky average 7.0 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 863rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ballard County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 12, 2025 19:45 | November 12, 2025 20:00 | 15m | 1,216 | 304 |
| 2 | January 5, 2025 13:00 | January 6, 2025 22:00 | 1d 9h | 749 | 4,184 |
| 3 | July 12, 2025 22:30 | July 13, 2025 05:30 | 7h | 579 | 2,469 |
| 4 | April 3, 2025 01:45 | April 4, 2025 05:15 | 1d 3h | 565 | 6,577 |
| 5 | October 13, 2025 13:30 | October 13, 2025 20:45 | 7h 15m | 563 | 1,411 |
| 6 | September 15, 2025 01:00 | September 15, 2025 07:45 | 6h 45m | 424 | 2,221 |
| 7 | July 9, 2025 16:15 | July 10, 2025 02:15 | 10h | 411 | 1,503 |
| 8 | March 4, 2025 21:15 | March 4, 2025 21:30 | 15m | 366 | 92 |
| 9 | February 10, 2025 19:45 | February 10, 2025 20:15 | 30m | 350 | 175 |
| 10 | March 15, 2025 07:15 | March 15, 2025 23:15 | 16h | 349 | 721 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/kentucky/ballard-county