Obion County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Obion County, Tennessee had 10 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.82 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 23 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

May, Dechardest months

May and December made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 11, 2021, reached 1,738 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 112.2 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	49,646	56	1
2018	29,551	34	1
2019	28,888	42	2
2020	51,566	29	3
2021	180,578	29	2
2022	28,138	44	0
2023	58,741	44	1

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 11, 2021	112.2	1,738	88,968
May 4, 2021	43.8	4,132	74,138
Mar 3, 2023	26.2	4,314	29,840
May 3, 2020	17.8	3,576	23,673
Feb 25, 2018	12.8	1,470	12,397

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.