Rutherford County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rutherford County, Tennessee had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.13 times the US outage time per person and 0.14 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 67 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 3, 2020, reached 11,034 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 12.5 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	58,522	43	0
2016	91,754	51	1
2017	26,232	31	0
2018	46,334	73	0
2019	92,271	68	1
2020	314,397	70	3
2021	108,546	89	0
2022	154,657	112	2
2023	171,152	114	0

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
May 3, 2020	12.5	11,034	90,861
May 5, 2020	28.8	17,188	56,748
May 4, 2020	12.5	5,870	44,460
Mar 3, 2023	7.0	5,070	34,314
Dec 24, 2022	8.8	20,637	31,689

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.