Grant County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.63 times the US outage time per person and 0.61 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 80 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

31 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 5,374 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	21,736	15	1
2016	5,480	12	0
2017	41,684	16	1
2018	51,838	24	2
2019	19,122	19	0
2020	64,287	24	2
2021	11,920	18	0
2022	60,165	29	1
2023	81,803	27	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
Apr 9, 2020	19.0	5,374	46,495
Mar 1, 2017	30.8	2,760	29,306
Jul 6, 2022	17.0	1,670	28,319
Mar 3, 2023	23.8	4,305	28,141
Jul 1, 2023	17.5	1,872	22,180

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.