Woodford County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Woodford County, Kentucky had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.04 times the US outage time per person and 2.93 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 14 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

124 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 88% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 11,346 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 123.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	31,346	28	0
2016	15,953	16	0
2017	47,354	20	2
2018	827,836	30	4
2019	19,817	36	0
2020	11,002	19	0
2021	33,660	28	1
2022	37,503	27	1
2023	830,016	20	6

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	123.8	11,346	685,636
Jul 20, 2018	56.0	13,455	623,954
Jul 23, 2018	30.8	7,077	147,694
Jul 2, 2023	46.0	6,873	96,136
Oct 3, 2023	8.5	2,058	17,485

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.