Union County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Union County, Kentucky had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.50 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 90 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

31 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 1,845 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.8 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	5,040	10	0
2016	18,202	14	1
2017	3,766	11	0
2018	36,512	26	2
2019	11,454	12	0
2020	1,263	6	0
2021	13,294	19	0
2022	20,910	26	1
2023	38,494	25	2

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	30.8	1,845	19,033
Jun 29, 2018	21.8	3,829	14,522
Jul 1, 2023	15.2	998	8,809
May 20, 2018	3.8	1,824	6,483
Jul 6, 2016	11.2	1,256	5,710

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.