Marshall County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Marshall County, Kentucky had 8 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.83 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 59 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 21, 2019, reached 5,784 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.8 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
2017	44,512	22	1
2018	46,970	26	1
2019	85,332	30	2
2020	25,439	32	0
2021	74,860	31	0
2022	71,924	40	2
2023	100,785	40	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
Jun 21, 2019	36.8	5,784	55,740
Mar 3, 2023	36.8	8,921	50,834
Jun 29, 2018	21.5	3,469	28,804
Mar 1, 2017	14.8	4,543	21,540
Aug 14, 2021	4.5	6,116	16,115

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.