I. Introduction
Utilities today put great emphasis on power system reliability because it takes a reliable system to achieve customer satisfaction [1]. Reliability in power systems is the degree to which the utility services can be depended on to be operational and predictable. Consideration must be given to climatic factors that are often responsible for electricity supply disruptions. This would improve distribution system reliability. Distribution networks are made up of overhead lines which are exposed to different weather conditions, often unfavorable conditions. Existing power outage prediction models make use of historical fault data without due consideration of climatic data; hence, the projections have low accuracy, which leads to unreliability.