Lawrence County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

Lawrence County, Tennessee had 4 major outages from 2020 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 0.75 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 29 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 4 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

3 of 4years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 8,889 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 18.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2020	71,049	44	2
2021	61,390	35	0
2022	109,724	61	1
2023	76,583	48	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
Mar 3, 2023	18.2	8,889	28,688
May 3, 2020	10.5	3,417	20,078
Nov 6, 2021	1.2	15,648	15,610
Apr 14, 2022	10.2	5,077	15,397
Apr 4, 2022	7.0	2,157	10,098

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.