Pike County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pike County, Kentucky had 78 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.21 times the US outage time per person and 3.09 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 12 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

8.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 16,027 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.2 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	628,962	125	10
2016	230,348	98	6
2017	554,326	128	7
2018	344,908	128	9
2019	315,446	140	11
2020	809,546	99	12
2021	254,394	103	10
2022	482,918	123	10
2023	289,647	114	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
Apr 13, 2020	37.2	16,027	409,289
Jul 14, 2015	69.0	9,581	314,434
Mar 1, 2017	82.0	10,091	265,150
Apr 14, 2020	33.5	9,744	163,100
Apr 1, 2023	76.8	6,920	161,549

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.