Cheatham County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cheatham County, Tennessee had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.76 times the US outage time per person and 0.81 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 25 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 7,239 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	20,074	25	0
2016	34,862	37	0
2017	28,158	31	1
2018	42,260	37	1
2019	117,697	47	2
2020	122,437	56	3
2021	43,538	46	0
2022	57,197	48	0
2023	244,735	49	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
Mar 3, 2023	87.0	7,239	163,079
Jun 22, 2019	39.5	8,287	66,276
Mar 3, 2020	5.5	9,676	46,021
May 3, 2020	13.5	4,524	23,546
Jul 1, 2023	23.0	2,461	22,079

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.