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2025 Bell County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Bell County, KY went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 121K customer-hours (Kentucky average 7.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 811th 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 Bell 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 | 7,312 | 1,828 |
| 2 | February 16, 2025 12:30 | February 19, 2025 18:45 | 3d 6h | 3,867 | 19K |
| 3 | May 17, 2025 05:45 | May 20, 2025 01:15 | 2d 19h | 2,632 | 37K |
| 4 | July 13, 2025 20:45 | July 14, 2025 04:00 | 7h 15m | 1,123 | 3,728 |
| 5 | January 15, 2025 20:00 | January 15, 2025 23:45 | 3h 45m | 1,083 | 1,092 |
| 6 | September 20, 2025 09:15 | September 20, 2025 11:00 | 1h 45m | 886 | 1,062 |
| 7 | January 14, 2025 21:45 | January 15, 2025 03:30 | 5h 45m | 835 | 2,200 |
| 8 | March 16, 2025 04:45 | March 17, 2025 18:30 | 1d 13h | 767 | 7,777 |
| 9 | May 2, 2025 20:30 | May 3, 2025 13:45 | 17h 15m | 762 | 2,853 |
| 10 | May 20, 2025 11:30 | May 24, 2025 00:45 | 3d 13h | 701 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 51 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/bell-county