Oldham County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oldham County, Kentucky had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.09 times the US outage time per person and 1.05 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 45 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 14,419 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 138.5 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	56,207	44	2
2016	55,564	39	2
2017	131,002	40	2
2018	394,699	33	5
2019	71,306	45	4
2020	153,338	42	6
2021	41,314	28	1
2022	65,395	44	3
2023	721,253	45	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
Mar 3, 2023	138.5	14,419	590,575
Feb 23, 2018	243.5	559	119,082
Nov 15, 2018	57.2	4,386	76,116
Jul 12, 2020	31.0	6,582	71,809
Jun 26, 2023	39.2	10,892	63,679

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.