Greenup County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Greenup County, Kentucky had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.50 times the US outage time per person and 1.45 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 34 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

182 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 5,897 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 182.0 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	41,455	30	3
2016	20,325	26	0
2017	50,648	23	3
2018	29,195	29	0
2019	56,046	36	3
2020	81,214	35	3
2021	709,052	35	4
2022	58,527	36	1
2023	120,422	35	4

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	182.0	5,897	505,285
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	4,064	167,385
Jun 11, 2020	18.5	4,302	44,073
Mar 3, 2023	40.0	2,854	33,774
Mar 25, 2023	24.5	5,220	32,034

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.