Power outages in Bell County, KY

Live outage counts for Middlesborough and Pineville and the rest of Bell County, updated every 10 minutes from LG&E and KU.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
fewer than 5customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
iUtilities hide very small outages for privacy and publish them only as "fewer than 5". Where many of these add up, we show an estimate ("about …").
0.02% of 13,103 customersUpdated 7 min ago
iWe check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.
LG&E and KUfewer than 5 / 13,103
Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.no live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

Outage locations not published
County outlineLG&E and KU publishes totals only, not outage locations.
iSome utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

1 of 9 ZIP codes have outages
ZIPAreaOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
40977Pinevillefewer than 53,6990.05%
40813Unincorporated area01850.00%
40845Unincorporated area08360.00%
40902Arjay05220.00%
40913Unincorporated area0720.00%
40940Unincorporated area0320.00%
40958Unincorporated area02830.00%
40965Middlesborough07,2750.00%
40988Unincorporated area02500.00%

Outage history in Bell County

2014–2025 record

Bell County averaged 45.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Kentucky counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 47. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 1.9 days, starting May 21, 2025.

The largest on record began November 12, 2025, with 7,312 customers out at once.

45.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.
2 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
2.8 dayslongest on record (September 2024)
7,312most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
November 12, 20257,31215 minutes1,828
May 16, 20214,8996 hours12,806
April 11, 20164,7105 hours6,567
March 28, 20213,96826 hours13,643
December 28, 20153,87312 hours4,660

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

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