Washington County, Tennessee Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Tennessee had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.29 times the Tennessee rate. It ranks 56 of 78 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2023, reached 13,074 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 11.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Tennessee counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	998	1	0
2016	6,756	2	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	1,596	2	0
2019	65,087	40	0
2020	59,252	56	0
2021	70,969	72	1
2022	232,867	129	3
2023	387,637	115	6

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 25, 2023	11.8	13,074	60,659
Apr 1, 2023	16.8	15,898	59,718
Aug 15, 2023	6.0	15,616	53,620
Jan 12, 2023	16.2	15,626	49,418
Aug 15, 2023	29.5	5,066	42,651

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.