Daviess County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Daviess County, Kentucky had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.35 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 105 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 10,998 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,286	14	0
2016	84,848	35	1
2017	23,531	35	0
2018	77,267	44	2
2019	60,567	46	1
2020	16,299	31	0
2021	38,828	33	1
2022	85,950	82	1
2023	434,008	73	5

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
Mar 3, 2023	71.0	10,998	209,882
Jun 29, 2023	34.2	5,013	67,618
Jul 7, 2016	46.0	4,120	55,368
Mar 3, 2023	5.5	10,916	30,519
Nov 15, 2018	27.5	2,898	28,742

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.