Kenton County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kenton County, Kentucky had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.47 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 95 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

63 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 6, 2022, reached 9,670 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 32.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	101,987	61	0
2016	244,519	84	6
2017	245,035	74	2
2018	302,258	82	4
2019	143,421	93	2
2020	152,987	54	2
2021	102,646	69	1
2022	380,071	61	5
2023	149,365	71	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
Jul 6, 2022	32.0	9,670	164,403
Nov 15, 2018	63.2	8,821	135,950
Mar 1, 2017	46.0	6,991	135,239
Apr 9, 2020	32.8	5,364	66,844
Mar 3, 2023	23.8	5,821	49,185

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.