Power outage history
Kenton County Kentucky
3.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
110th most of 119 in Kentucky 52% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Kenton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Kenton, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 9,670 | 13% | 31 h | 25 h | 164k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 6,991 | 9% | 40 h | 31 h | 133k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 8,821 | 12% | 40 h | 30 h | 126k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,364 | 7% | 31 h | 26 h | 66k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 5,600 | 8% | 24 h | 2.8 h | 57k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 5,821 | 8% | 18 h | 15 h | 46k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | No storm report | 4,344 | 6% | 19 h | 9.0 h | 46k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 8,190 | 11% | 13 h | 8.8 h | 44k |
| Apr 3, 2025 | No storm report | 3,473 | 5% | 13 h | – | 40k |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 7,834 | 11% | 10 h | 8.2 h | 37k |
| May 31, 2018 | Tropical Storm Alberto | 4,092 | 5% | 19 h | 21 h | 34k |
| Jun 18, 2021 | No storm report | 3,945 | 5% | 13 h | 15 h | 28k |
| May 19, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,066 | 4% | 15 h | – | 28k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Windstorm | 6,392 | 9% | 11 h | 4.5 h | 26k |
| Jun 22, 2022 | No storm report | 4,102 | 6% | 8.8 h | 6.2 h | 25k |
| Jan 21, 2025 | No storm report | 5,030 | 7% | 9.5 h | 6.0 h | 24k |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 6,542 | 9% | 6.2 h | 5.5 h | 22k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,957 | 5% | 8.5 h | 13 h | 19k |
| Sep 10, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,545 | 5% | 13 h | – | 18k |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 4,308 | 6% | 6.2 h | 6.8 h | 16k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 2,446 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 14k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Windstorm | 2,473 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 13k |
| Nov 30, 2017 | No storm report | 5,745 | 8% | 6.0 h | 1.2 h | 13k |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Windstorm | 1,448 | 2% | 9.8 h | – | 12k |
| Jul 20, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,265 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 12k |
| Jul 19, 2020 | No storm report | 5,732 | 8% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 11k |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,444 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 11k |
| May 27, 2021 | No storm report | 5,691 | 8% | 2.2 h | 12 min | 11k |
| Jul 18, 2015 | No storm report | 4,393 | 6% | 4.5 h | 4.2 h | 11k |
| Sep 28, 2020 | No storm report | 6,345 | 9% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 10k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Kenton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 52%
- Thunderstorms 27%
- Ice storm 9.8%
- Tropical storm 7.1%
- Windstorm 2.1%
- Flooding 1.0%
- Winter storm 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Kenton
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Kentucky territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Kentucky | Investor Owned | 184 | 98 | 0.88 | 13.9 | 141k |
| Owen Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 135 | 103 | 1.20 | 12.6 | 65k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Pendleton 6.5 h
- Grant 5.7 h
- Campbell 4.1 h
- Hamilton, OH 3.8 h
- Kenton (this county) 3.2 h
- Boone 2.3 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 74,546 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →