Loudon County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Loudon County, Tennessee had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.37 times the US outage time per person and 0.39 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 48 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 7, 2023, reached 4,489 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.8 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	67,504	10	2
2016	5,138	21	0
2017	3,767	12	0
2018	6,686	9	0
2019	40,786	47	2
2020	49,071	42	0
2021	71,673	60	0
2022	132,442	47	3
2023	127,301	56	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
Aug 7, 2023	15.8	4,489	38,992
Feb 17, 2015	44.8	1,051	36,520
May 6, 2022	15.8	5,319	28,127
Mar 31, 2022	19.5	4,506	20,734
Dec 23, 2022	7.0	3,719	20,104

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.