Fentress County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Fentress County, Tennessee had 8 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.89 times the US outage time per person and 2.02 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 5 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 5years with a major outage

23 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 5,594 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Tennessee counties

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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
2019	25,320	35	1
2020	114,410	40	2
2021	107,100	51	1
2022	77,106	52	1
2023	140,613	36	3

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
Mar 3, 2023	15.2	5,594	40,692
Apr 12, 2020	20.8	4,590	30,652
Mar 4, 2023	22.8	2,238	18,767
Feb 7, 2021	18.2	1,669	16,193
Mar 3, 2020	5.8	2,797	15,737

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.