Powell County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Powell County, Kentucky had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 56 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 12, 2018, reached 1,845 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.2 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	1,152	2	0
2016	8,006	10	0
2017	9,023	10	0
2018	53,186	13	1
2019	4,686	12	0
2020	1,234	3	0
2021	118,289	17	5
2022	18,796	16	1
2023	44,624	19	1

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 12, 2018	47.2	1,845	48,638
Feb 11, 2021	56.5	2,004	46,660
Feb 28, 2021	11.2	2,407	26,303
Feb 16, 2021	44.2	1,005	25,593
Mar 3, 2023	40.5	1,315	22,036

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.