Perry County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Perry County, Kentucky had 54 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.35 times the US outage time per person and 4.19 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 7 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

212 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 28, 2022, reached 4,463 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 212.2 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	274,652	47	5
2016	122,592	66	11
2017	153,967	66	7
2018	89,262	55	2
2019	86,548	56	6
2020	933,516	70	8
2021	172,932	48	5
2022	587,096	54	3
2023	137,368	45	7

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
Jul 28, 2022	212.2	4,463	535,777
Apr 13, 2020	37.8	14,343	458,983
Apr 14, 2020	33.5	10,854	219,762
Jul 14, 2015	68.8	3,421	126,932
Feb 15, 2021	64.2	3,629	103,884

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.