Owen County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 73 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

39 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Janhardest months

March and January made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 4,006 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 39.2 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	13,868	7	0
2016	2,301	4	0
2017	41,277	6	1
2018	12,279	14	1
2019	18,513	20	0
2020	12,477	17	0
2021	3,907	13	0
2022	9,011	16	0
2023	62,785	24	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 1, 2017	39.2	4,006	37,062
Jan 12, 2023	13.8	2,571	19,186
Mar 8, 2015	7.0	1,911	9,192
Mar 3, 2023	7.5	1,949	8,783
Mar 4, 2023	26.2	465	7,641

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.