Allen County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Allen County, Kentucky had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.64 times the US outage time per person and 1.58 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 30 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 9,739 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	29,104	23	0
2016	95,627	43	1
2017	26,608	23	0
2018	32,226	21	1
2019	114,012	35	1
2020	58,537	36	2
2021	36,346	31	0
2022	65,597	59	1
2023	337,270	54	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
Mar 3, 2023	95.8	9,739	238,558
Jun 22, 2019	37.0	3,952	69,992
Jan 11, 2016	11.8	2,419	23,701
Jul 29, 2023	15.5	2,491	17,253
Dec 18, 2016	1.5	12,799	16,053

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.