Elliott County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Elliott County, Kentucky had 5 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 7.79 times the US outage time per person and 7.51 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 1 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

3 of 5years with a major outage

168 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 95% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 3,545 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 168.0 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
2019	1,286	2	0
2020	3,185	9	0
2021	651,297	43	3
2022	22,569	24	1
2023	13,691	9	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
Feb 11, 2021	168.0	3,545	311,493
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	2,574	242,359
Feb 23, 2021	96.5	1,708	77,632
Jun 17, 2022	23.0	1,312	14,372
Feb 24, 2023	8.2	911	5,832

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.