Bradley County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Bradley County, Tennessee had 23 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.10 times the US outage time per person and 1.18 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 14 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

4.6major outages per year

4 of 5years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Dechardest months

June and December made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 13,967 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 41.0 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
2019	66,362	73	0
2020	329,404	109	5
2021	324,946	136	5
2022	570,891	137	9
2023	239,523	100	4

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
Apr 13, 2020	41.0	13,967	138,723
Dec 24, 2022	24.5	7,252	100,755
Jan 12, 2022	109.8	2,145	85,276
Jun 29, 2022	24.8	3,210	71,557
May 5, 2021	17.5	3,844	42,707

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.