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2025 Nicholas County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Nicholas County, KY went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Kentucky average 7.0 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 120 Kentucky counties and 1163rd 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 Nicholas 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 15:30 | November 12, 2025 20:15 | 4h 45m | 1,907 | 493 |
| 2 | August 14, 2025 14:15 | August 14, 2025 19:45 | 5h 30m | 1,872 | 7,695 |
| 3 | March 6, 2025 10:00 | March 6, 2025 11:45 | 1h 45m | 884 | 1,544 |
| 4 | July 27, 2025 08:15 | July 27, 2025 11:45 | 3h 30m | 384 | 936 |
| 5 | July 26, 2025 20:15 | July 26, 2025 21:15 | 1h | 383 | 310 |
| 6 | July 27, 2025 01:30 | July 27, 2025 05:00 | 3h 30m | 380 | 871 |
| 7 | August 18, 2025 12:00 | August 18, 2025 15:00 | 3h | 318 | 717 |
| 8 | August 22, 2025 20:30 | August 23, 2025 02:00 | 5h 30m | 186 | 1,008 |
| 9 | April 6, 2025 20:45 | April 7, 2025 01:30 | 4h 45m | 137 | 238 |
| 10 | September 7, 2025 10:00 | September 7, 2025 13:30 | 3h 30m | 134 | 435 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 17 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/nicholas-county