City of Dyersburg, TN
How often City of Dyersburg goes out
Outages at City of Dyersburg are uncommon. Tennessee customers on this grid saw 1.2 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 26 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 89% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single City of Dyersburg outage runs
At an average of 21 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Dyersburg customers need a generator
Most City of Dyersburg customers keep power almost all year. Serving 11,985 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Dyersburg's record was measured
City of Dyersburg filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Tennessee territory, serving 11,985 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.