Mercer County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mercer County, Kentucky had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.43 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 98 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

77 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 3,261 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.2 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	12,786	10	0
2016	12,820	10	0
2017	7,728	6	1
2018	15,705	12	1
2019	7,721	16	0
2020	10,143	12	0
2021	16,310	19	1
2022	17,788	27	0
2023	127,244	18	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
Mar 3, 2023	77.2	3,261	92,120
Jun 26, 2023	17.2	1,618	11,884
Jan 12, 2023	4.0	6,309	11,806
Jul 20, 2018	24.2	1,864	10,253
Jun 25, 2016	2.5	3,080	7,258

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.