Harlan County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Harlan County, Kentucky had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.78 times the US outage time per person and 0.75 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 65 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 17, 2022, reached 1,820 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 42.0 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	28,266	35	0
2016	66,318	38	3
2017	25,758	25	1
2018	69,257	27	3
2019	26,208	33	0
2020	37,727	55	1
2021	47,097	40	2
2022	64,115	48	4
2023	63,820	38	3

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
Jun 17, 2022	42.0	1,820	27,831
Apr 4, 2018	18.0	2,723	26,187
Apr 1, 2023	32.0	1,869	22,088
Feb 11, 2018	22.2	840	12,832
Jul 22, 2018	8.2	1,996	12,431

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.