Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska had 52 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.72 times the US outage time per person and 1.75 times the Alaska rate. It ranks 1 of 6 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

118 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 1, 2023, reached 9,716 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Alaska 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	96,155	30	4
2016	99,604	45	2
2017	94,425	48	0
2018	373,365	92	10
2019	309,434	76	6
2020	237,887	59	8
2021	402,867	80	10
2022	389,517	91	8
2023	321,510	84	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
Sep 1, 2023	43.2	9,716	138,244
Jan 1, 2022	52.0	5,741	109,876
Dec 10, 2021	116.0	1,062	87,090
Mar 29, 2022	118.0	741	75,960
Oct 28, 2018	18.8	3,805	69,432

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.