Lee County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lee County, Kentucky had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.81 times the US outage time per person and 2.71 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 17 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 4, 2023, reached 2,669 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	10,664	9	0
2016	40,311	21	1
2017	17,494	10	1
2018	34,830	29	1
2019	10,571	9	0
2020	6,346	6	0
2021	125,584	13	4
2022	27,808	22	2
2023	178,579	21	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
Mar 4, 2023	74.8	2,669	75,578
Mar 3, 2023	19.5	3,249	50,344
Feb 16, 2021	50.5	1,636	50,061
Feb 18, 2021	58.0	766	37,108
Apr 1, 2023	33.0	1,620	19,507

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.