Coffee County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Coffee County, Tennessee had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 40 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 4,982 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.5 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	168,202	15	3
2016	0	0	0
2017	413	1	0
2018	25,323	26	1
2019	41,912	43	1
2020	81,172	26	1
2021	178,422	36	2
2022	89,962	38	3
2023	103,007	19	4

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 15, 2021	67.5	4,982	135,954
Feb 16, 2015	21.5	6,594	89,234
Aug 7, 2023	17.2	6,325	59,244
May 3, 2020	26.8	6,256	52,952
Feb 17, 2015	25.2	4,461	40,909

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.