Lincoln County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lincoln County, Kentucky had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 53 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 3,800 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	16,087	5	1
2016	4,028	5	0
2017	318	1	0
2018	4,184	4	0
2019	12,058	9	0
2020	30,213	17	1
2021	251,756	28	4
2022	33,018	18	0
2023	176,367	32	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
Feb 15, 2021	67.5	3,800	144,957
Mar 3, 2023	73.2	5,444	138,786
Feb 18, 2021	51.2	5,945	62,756
Feb 11, 2021	26.2	1,470	17,403
Dec 23, 2022	4.0	4,067	13,060

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.