Giles County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Giles County, Tennessee had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.06 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 15 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

May, Febhardest months

May and February made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 9, 2021, reached 7,941 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	19,391	4	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	66,584	44	2
2018	76,519	60	1
2019	25,796	10	0
2020	156,006	59	4
2021	138,566	62	3
2022	91,559	86	3
2023	150,673	74	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
Mar 9, 2021	20.2	7,941	48,924
May 5, 2020	16.0	5,857	35,053
Sep 6, 2023	3.5	12,506	27,704
May 3, 2020	21.2	3,280	27,085
Mar 3, 2023	12.5	5,760	24,151

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.