Knott County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Knott County, Kentucky had 45 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.89 times the US outage time per person and 5.68 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 4 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

186 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 28, 2022, reached 5,965 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 186.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Kentucky counties

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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	91,467	42	6
2016	84,010	35	3
2017	59,209	33	4
2018	75,276	27	10
2019	88,946	37	5
2020	532,422	44	5
2021	122,842	31	3
2022	607,227	36	6
2023	80,407	30	3

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 28, 2022	186.0	5,965	544,265
Apr 13, 2020	37.2	7,346	228,509
Apr 14, 2020	33.5	5,442	151,440
Feb 15, 2021	64.0	3,088	75,656
Apr 16, 2020	30.5	3,057	68,460

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.