Roane County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Roane County, Tennessee had 7 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 53 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 8years with a major outage

22 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 31, 2022, reached 2,505 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.5 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
2016	3,405	2	0
2017	486	1	0
2018	174	2	0
2019	22,667	24	1
2020	60,498	41	1
2021	56,697	33	0
2022	110,518	60	2
2023	84,308	39	3

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 31, 2022	22.5	2,505	24,253
Aug 7, 2023	16.0	1,885	19,005
Jan 26, 2022	10.2	2,634	18,824
Jun 13, 2020	4.8	3,446	16,368
Mar 29, 2020	15.0	2,462	15,823

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.