Estill County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.13 times the US outage time per person and 1.09 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 43 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 4, 2023, reached 2,112 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.5 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	16,023	5	0
2016	15,854	8	0
2017	14,489	4	1
2018	12,931	7	0
2019	11,356	10	0
2020	4,949	10	0
2021	86,168	21	5
2022	61,144	15	1
2023	126,424	24	3

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 4, 2023	87.5	2,112	76,586
Jan 17, 2022	66.0	1,726	44,603
Feb 16, 2021	50.5	1,032	32,242
Mar 2, 2021	46.0	442	16,625
Jun 26, 2023	23.5	3,135	16,266

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.