Pulaski County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pulaski County, Kentucky had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.27 times the US outage time per person and 1.22 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 38 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 13,765 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 54.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	28,787	19	1
2016	4,853	4	0
2017	1,346	5	0
2018	18,526	9	1
2019	83,424	60	1
2020	138,631	60	4
2021	639,363	85	5
2022	200,935	141	5
2023	752,215	87	9

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	54.8	13,765	434,018
Feb 15, 2021	65.8	14,885	417,004
Mar 6, 2023	26.8	4,441	93,477
Feb 18, 2021	54.8	4,615	72,748
Apr 1, 2023	37.8	5,592	64,624

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.