Grayson County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Grayson County, Kentucky had 8 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.99 times the US outage time per person and 1.92 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 24 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

3 of 8years with a major outage

150 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 7,732 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 149.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Kentucky counties

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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
2016	5,369	5	0
2017	10,564	9	0
2018	101,200	20	2
2019	21,563	27	0
2020	15,537	28	0
2021	29,786	25	0
2022	59,585	33	4
2023	809,288	46	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	149.8	7,732	449,423
Jun 26, 2023	90.5	7,810	317,422
Nov 15, 2018	42.5	3,776	74,282
Apr 13, 2022	26.0	1,425	16,710
Feb 19, 2021	2.8	7,095	14,116

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.