Sevier County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sevier County, Tennessee had 54 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.67 times the US outage time per person and 2.85 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 2 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

219 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 24, 2020, reached 27,962 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.0 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	24,845	11	0
2016	1,010,271	25	3
2017	648,322	93	8
2018	187,748	138	2
2019	254,932	141	12
2020	1,364,132	120	9
2021	162,570	120	4
2022	1,765,948	134	8
2023	457,970	121	8

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 24, 2020	96.0	27,962	1,018,169
Nov 28, 2016	218.8	13,218	955,529
Jan 3, 2022	52.2	29,229	894,529
Jan 5, 2022	56.8	13,160	473,072
May 4, 2017	28.2	14,877	217,565

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.