Caldwell County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Caldwell County, Kentucky had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.66 times the US outage time per person and 0.64 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 77 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Febhardest months

December and February made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 11, 2021, reached 2,603 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,790	4	0
2016	5,466	4	0
2017	9,956	14	1
2018	4,901	10	0
2019	7,624	20	0
2020	11,196	18	0
2021	87,240	9	2
2022	43,398	22	1
2023	12,792	8	1

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
Dec 11, 2021	93.5	2,603	64,528
Feb 3, 2022	51.8	1,646	29,743
Dec 15, 2021	38.2	583	18,576
Mar 3, 2023	18.5	535	6,911
Dec 23, 2022	1.8	2,266	3,966

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.