Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.92 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 55 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 8,674 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.0 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	42,134	39	1
2016	33,390	30	1
2017	14,411	22	0
2018	24,754	34	1
2019	52,155	26	1
2020	24,675	33	0
2021	90,351	29	1
2022	22,928	27	0
2023	313,952	34	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	97.0	8,674	252,353
Dec 11, 2021	72.2	5,330	60,576
Jun 26, 2023	12.8	6,917	38,592
Oct 26, 2019	47.2	2,502	31,147
Nov 15, 2018	16.2	1,909	9,813

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.