Bullitt County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 0.56 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 83 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

118 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Novhardest months

March and November made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 15,629 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 118.2 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	16,751	15	0
2016	6,608	14	0
2017	52,949	31	1
2018	179,974	47	4
2019	91,778	62	1
2020	66,084	65	1
2021	48,837	66	1
2022	111,474	56	2
2023	514,340	56	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	118.2	15,629	373,109
Nov 15, 2018	43.8	6,133	111,473
Jun 25, 2023	28.5	12,265	73,883
Mar 14, 2019	22.8	11,730	55,944
Apr 14, 2022	31.0	4,537	36,074

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.