Monroe County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Tennessee had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.21 times the US outage time per person and 1.29 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 12 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 17, 2015, reached 6,294 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.8 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	477,791	78	5
2016	65,058	67	1
2017	111,554	64	3
2018	61,939	62	1
2019	53,417	53	2
2020	105,252	64	3
2021	76,320	78	1
2022	202,188	82	3
2023	157,174	84	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
Feb 17, 2015	44.8	6,294	167,249
Feb 16, 2015	21.2	7,377	115,164
Jul 14, 2015	45.5	5,529	63,991
Feb 19, 2015	52.5	3,154	56,384
Mar 3, 2023	47.0	4,745	50,305

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.