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Who serves Bell County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include LG&E and KU and Cumberland Valley Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Bell County, KY
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 548 customers, restored in ~8.5 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Bell County, KY
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
336 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Kentucky norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~4,899 customers out in May 2021, restored after about 5.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Bell County include Middlesborough, Pineville, Arjay, Kentucky Ridge, Pruden-Fonde and Tejay. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Bell County, KY?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Bell include LG&E and KU and Cumberland Valley Electric — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
