Ballard County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Ballard County, Kentucky had 3 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 63 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 8years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 21, 2019, reached 1,941 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	4,590	5	0
2017	2,669	4	0
2018	33,067	15	2
2019	42,084	12	1
2020	6,378	15	0
2021	9,612	16	0
2022	9,854	16	0
2023	11,770	13	0

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
Jun 21, 2019	26.5	1,941	23,783
Jun 29, 2018	21.5	3,358	22,830
Mar 14, 2019	4.2	2,558	7,805
Jun 30, 2018	15.0	519	6,171
Mar 14, 2019	6.2	1,383	3,298

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.