Harrison County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.49 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 90 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 4,636 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 49.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,188	7	0
2016	10,118	14	0
2017	18,426	23	1
2018	9,172	14	0
2019	17,755	24	1
2020	25,429	11	1
2021	8,377	12	1
2022	13,720	12	1
2023	109,201	15	1

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	49.5	4,636	92,834
Apr 9, 2020	19.2	1,948	9,730
Mar 1, 2017	11.8	1,769	8,459
Jul 1, 2023	4.5	1,235	4,494
Jun 17, 2022	9.5	1,876	4,476

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.