Blount County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Blount County, Tennessee had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.72 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 27 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 17, 2015, reached 8,212 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.8 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	464,141	63	3
2016	68,351	101	0
2017	152,252	85	2
2018	54,695	66	1
2019	191,804	142	3
2020	359,067	157	5
2021	119,702	111	2
2022	441,646	131	5
2023	403,636	132	7

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
Feb 17, 2015	44.8	8,212	236,191
Jan 3, 2022	63.5	7,691	153,552
Mar 3, 2023	47.0	13,526	137,080
Feb 16, 2015	20.0	7,785	123,654
Dec 24, 2020	49.2	6,678	84,140

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.