City of Bristol, TN
City of Bristol's outage record
City of Bristol customers in Tennessee rarely lose power at all: 0.8 interruptions last year, adding up to just 59 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 74% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Bristol looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 75 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Bristol
Most City of Bristol customers keep power almost all year. Serving 34,999 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Bristol filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Tennessee territory, serving 34,999 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Tennessee is covered too: see Tennessee's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.