City of Owensboro, KY
How often City of Owensboro goes out
City of Owensboro customers in Kentucky had 1.1 interruptions last year, 87 minutes total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 79% less outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Owensboro looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 77 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Owensboro
Serving 27,385 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - City of Owensboro's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Owensboro files with federal regulators every year - serving 27,385 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Kentucky as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kentucky's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.