Henderson County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Henderson County, Kentucky had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.34 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 108 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 29, 2020, reached 8,164 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.2 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	13,509	24	0
2016	22,283	20	1
2017	3,678	11	0
2018	24,606	22	1
2019	29,480	24	0
2020	69,906	26	1
2021	18,572	30	1
2022	72,042	43	2
2023	74,168	37	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 29, 2020	19.2	8,164	59,136
Mar 3, 2023	49.5	2,951	48,761
Aug 2, 2022	16.8	2,167	17,674
Feb 3, 2022	21.2	1,808	14,567
Mar 14, 2019	6.5	3,780	11,801

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.