City of Ripley, TN
City of Ripley's outage record
1.8 separate outages last year, 4.7 hours without power in total - that is City of Ripley's record for Tennessee, running ahead of the national median. That is 22% more outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A typical outage here runs about 2.5 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for City of Ripley
Serving 6,308 customers here, City of Ripley customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
City of Ripley filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Tennessee territory, serving 6,308 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Tennessee as a whole, across every utility that filed: Tennessee's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.