Chester County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Chester County, Tennessee had 7 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.81 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 26 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 11, 2017, reached 4,047 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 4.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	59,525	18	2
2018	20,581	33	0
2019	24,411	15	1
2020	21,353	20	1
2021	36,590	32	1
2022	17,823	33	0
2023	50,738	33	2

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
Jun 11, 2017	4.2	4,047	15,658
Mar 3, 2023	16.0	2,397	13,815
May 13, 2017	27.0	528	13,746
Oct 8, 2023	15.5	801	12,416
May 14, 2017	21.2	509	10,796

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.