Wayne County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Wayne County, Kentucky had 13 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.73 times the US outage time per person and 2.63 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 18 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

5 of 5years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 6,300 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.5 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
2019	69,309	25	1
2020	77,228	40	4
2021	210,528	50	4
2022	54,316	46	1
2023	242,853	35	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 3, 2023	56.5	6,300	178,530
Feb 15, 2021	66.0	3,866	140,466
Jun 22, 2019	43.0	3,602	51,931
Feb 18, 2021	35.2	2,330	24,135
Jan 11, 2020	13.5	3,821	18,734

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.