Hickman County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Hickman County, Kentucky had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

69 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Janhardest months

December and January made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 11, 2021, reached 1,216 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.8 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	2,807	3	0
2016	1,379	3	0
2017	16,795	17	1
2018	14,355	13	0
2019	13,928	13	0
2020	17,701	16	0
2021	134,270	15	1
2022	14,322	11	0
2023	52,938	23	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
Dec 11, 2021	68.8	1,216	81,892
Feb 26, 2023	5.2	2,744	14,406
Jan 8, 2021	5.0	2,760	13,800
Apr 30, 2023	5.0	2,733	13,665
Jan 14, 2021	4.8	2,759	13,105

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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