McLean County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

McLean County, Kentucky had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 0.92 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 54 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 2,655 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.2 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	7,913	10	0
2016	14,674	18	1
2017	6,894	10	0
2018	28,730	16	2
2019	12,981	19	0
2020	19,376	17	0
2021	33,099	9	1
2022	15,812	20	0
2023	51,220	19	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
Mar 3, 2023	46.2	2,655	39,368
Dec 11, 2021	44.2	1,994	30,296
Jul 15, 2018	8.0	1,415	11,126
Jun 27, 2018	8.0	931	5,768
Jul 7, 2016	8.0	1,427	5,000

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.