Jackson County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Jackson County, Kentucky had 11 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.52 times the US outage time per person and 3.39 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 10 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

3 of 5years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 84% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 16, 2021, reached 5,910 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.5 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	5,772	7	0
2020	10,130	8	0
2021	418,572	42	5
2022	21,560	23	2
2023	118,243	36	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 16, 2021	50.5	5,910	190,969
Feb 18, 2021	58.0	2,728	98,930
Feb 15, 2021	15.8	5,802	65,072
Mar 3, 2023	19.5	2,742	40,174
Feb 21, 2021	40.5	1,089	33,608

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.