Shelby County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Shelby County, Kentucky had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.28 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 110 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 5,342 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.5 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	21,318	11	1
2016	6,006	8	0
2017	1,993	4	0
2018	51,971	31	1
2019	44,762	43	5
2020	15,964	18	0
2021	25,776	33	0
2022	42,200	37	1
2023	113,660	28	1

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	72.5	5,342	89,806
Apr 14, 2022	11.2	2,724	20,881
Nov 15, 2018	16.8	3,485	14,908
Mar 14, 2019	19.2	1,250	9,801
Jul 14, 2015	13.0	2,767	8,564

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.