Henderson County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Henderson County, Tennessee had 2 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.15 times the US outage time per person and 0.16 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 64 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 7years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Dechardest months

November and December made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 27, 2022, reached 1,246 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.8 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
2017	3,019	7	0
2018	4,932	12	0
2019	3,367	3	0
2020	7,774	17	0
2021	11,639	7	1
2022	42,334	5	1
2023	776	1	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
Nov 27, 2022	27.8	1,246	34,239
Nov 28, 2022	5.5	1,246	6,853
Dec 11, 2021	8.5	740	5,601
Jan 11, 2020	3.8	1,212	4,540
Jul 23, 2019	3.2	1,225	3,126

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.