Carter County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carter County, Kentucky had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.36 times the US outage time per person and 4.21 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 6 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

181 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 86% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 11,506 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 180.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	216,378	22	2
2016	46,326	20	2
2017	17,086	13	1
2018	26,548	20	0
2019	31,977	21	2
2020	71,144	39	3
2021	1,926,709	72	4
2022	68,800	38	3
2023	101,146	33	6

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 11, 2021	180.8	11,506	1,170,333
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	8,010	611,766
Feb 23, 2021	77.8	3,515	119,823
Jul 13, 2015	26.8	5,868	107,065
Jul 14, 2015	68.8	3,703	88,506

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.