Hawkins County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hawkins County, Tennessee had 15 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 0.76 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.

1.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 9, 2018, reached 4,500 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 58.0 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
2015	9,299	13	0
2016	27,802	16	0
2017	83,511	33	1
2018	181,970	52	2
2019	120,875	100	2
2020	137,768	62	2
2021	80,425	59	2
2022	142,431	80	3
2023	150,898	111	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
Dec 9, 2018	58.0	4,500	75,531
Jul 21, 2018	19.8	4,883	50,262
Oct 28, 2017	41.0	1,274	45,132
Jul 29, 2023	45.5	4,286	41,006
May 6, 2022	9.5	6,242	25,054

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.