City of Winchester, TN
City of Winchester's outage record
2 separate outages last year, 3.5 hours without power in total - that is City of Winchester's record for Tennessee, running ahead of the national median. That is 10% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 1.7 hours 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 6,868 customers here, Given how often City of Winchester goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Winchester files with federal regulators every year - serving 6,868 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Tennessee as a whole, across every utility that filed: Tennessee's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.