Clark County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clark County, Kentucky had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.43 times the US outage time per person and 0.42 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 100 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

93 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 6,423 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 92.8 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	5,038	6	0
2016	16,918	27	0
2017	10,114	14	0
2018	28,084	18	1
2019	13,270	20	0
2020	27,453	14	1
2021	143,367	29	3
2022	28,734	27	2
2023	86,862	23	2

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	92.8	6,423	97,809
Mar 3, 2023	41.8	5,261	58,630
Feb 16, 2021	21.0	1,433	16,589
Jul 2, 2023	17.0	968	11,020
Jun 10, 2020	8.8	3,725	10,705

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.