Breathitt County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Breathitt County, Kentucky had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.76 times the US outage time per person and 3.63 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 9 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

213 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Febhardest months

July and February made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 28, 2022, reached 3,078 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 213.2 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	139,634	31	4
2016	98,469	26	7
2017	79,270	26	4
2018	22,825	11	3
2019	52,460	30	2
2020	107,795	32	3
2021	105,956	20	4
2022	363,488	29	3
2023	89,619	28	5

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
Jul 28, 2022	213.2	3,078	317,148
Jul 14, 2015	69.0	1,573	65,230
Feb 15, 2021	63.5	1,867	62,902
Apr 13, 2020	36.8	1,694	43,382
Mar 1, 2017	34.8	2,053	39,095

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.