Boyd County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Boyd County, Kentucky had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.12 times the US outage time per person and 3.01 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 13 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

180 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 85% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 17,376 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 179.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Kentucky counties

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Outage impact by year

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

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	89,090	40	2
2016	56,272	37	2
2017	111,741	47	3
2018	76,437	55	2
2019	52,617	55	2
2020	142,560	58	2
2021	2,609,272	29	3
2022	35,932	25	1
2023	103,518	29	4

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	179.8	17,376	1,700,659
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	13,246	804,718
Feb 23, 2021	69.2	3,862	75,478
Mar 1, 2017	30.2	5,092	63,727
Apr 9, 2020	43.0	3,640	59,531

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.