Cocke County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Cocke County, Tennessee had 12 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 47 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Janhardest months

December and January made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 2,739 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 33.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	18,629	10	1
2018	5,636	6	0
2019	4,947	10	0
2020	52,911	28	2
2021	39,324	42	2
2022	90,765	45	3
2023	72,327	33	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
Jan 3, 2022	33.5	2,739	36,517
Dec 27, 2020	64.5	725	27,986
Apr 1, 2023	28.8	4,356	24,244
Jan 12, 2023	22.5	1,965	15,636
Dec 24, 2020	15.0	1,107	12,803

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.