Johnson County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Johnson County, Kentucky had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.02 times the US outage time per person and 2.92 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 15 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

123 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 10,000 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.2 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	53,109	24	2
2016	23,662	16	0
2017	15,054	18	0
2018	45,241	26	3
2019	38,388	28	3
2020	136,592	55	6
2021	836,338	48	9
2022	229,456	55	5
2023	93,172	44	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
Feb 15, 2021	64.2	10,000	389,584
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	4,432	329,072
Jun 17, 2022	76.5	5,379	139,744
Feb 23, 2021	78.0	1,686	47,924
Mar 4, 2023	41.5	2,388	36,541

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.