Clay County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clay County, Tennessee had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.77 times the US outage time per person and 1.90 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 6 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

17 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 2, 2021, reached 4,703 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 6.2 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
2015	29,747	28	0
2016	33,334	34	1
2017	13,602	15	0
2018	33,692	18	1
2019	55,256	24	1
2020	25,844	18	1
2021	45,954	14	0
2022	22,224	22	0
2023	47,244	19	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
May 2, 2021	6.2	4,703	27,196
Jun 22, 2019	10.0	3,725	23,968
May 28, 2018	13.2	1,648	21,836
Aug 10, 2019	6.8	1,452	9,572
Aug 16, 2019	3.0	4,621	9,401

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.