Franklin County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Kentucky had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.43 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 98 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

123 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 4,545 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 123.2 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	9,716	19	0
2016	19,573	23	0
2017	42,372	53	1
2018	100,256	25	1
2019	23,728	25	0
2020	8,566	10	0
2021	11,107	13	1
2022	44,538	24	1
2023	249,102	26	2

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 3, 2023	123.2	4,545	215,372
Jul 20, 2018	56.2	4,052	79,261
Jun 17, 2022	8.2	2,629	11,979
Feb 9, 2023	11.2	2,021	9,468
Jan 13, 2017	7.0	1,673	8,608

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.