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Who serves Nelson County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Salt River Electric ↗, City of Bardstown Electric ↗, Inter County Energy Cooperative Corp, Blue Grass Energy ↗ and 1 more, 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 — Nelson County, KY
⚡ Power here was restored about 25 hours ago — the outage peaked at 890 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 890 customers, restored in ~3.7 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Oct 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Nelson County, KY
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
462 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is shorter than the Kentucky norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~15,158 customers out in July 2017, restored after about 30 min. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
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.
Cities we track in Nelson County
Communities in Nelson County include Bardstown, Bloomfield, New Haven, Fairfield, Boston, Chaplin, Coxs Creek and New Hope. 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 Nelson County, KY?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Nelson include Salt River Electric, City of Bardstown Electric, Inter County Energy Cooperative Corp and others — 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.
