County annual report · FIPS 47009
2016 Blount County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Blount County, TN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.5 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 51 Tennessee counties and 1642nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 6, 2016 21:45 | July 7, 2016 21:00 | 23h 15m | 2,255 | 6,937 |
| 2 | June 17, 2016 22:45 | June 18, 2016 03:00 | 4h 15m | 1,951 | 4,100 |
| 3 | July 7, 2016 22:45 | July 8, 2016 11:45 | 13h | 1,563 | 4,269 |
| 4 | March 20, 2016 17:00 | March 20, 2016 17:30 | 30m | 1,257 | 315 |
| 5 | May 20, 2016 20:45 | May 20, 2016 21:15 | 30m | 1,133 | 567 |
| 6 | September 26, 2016 18:15 | September 27, 2016 03:30 | 9h 15m | 1,099 | 1,847 |
| 7 | June 14, 2016 12:30 | June 14, 2016 14:30 | 2h | 1,038 | 523 |
| 8 | November 27, 2016 11:45 | November 27, 2016 13:45 | 2h | 970 | 1,213 |
| 9 | November 20, 2016 08:45 | November 20, 2016 10:30 | 1h 45m | 969 | 1,696 |
| 10 | November 1, 2016 18:15 | November 1, 2016 19:15 | 1h | 962 | 251 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 90 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Blount County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville Utilities Board | 2015 | 3.5 hrs | 1.60 | 2.0 hrs | 1.44 |
| Fort Loudoun Electric Coop | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | 2.44 | 5.1 hrs | 2.44 |
| Sevier County Electric System | 2016 | 20.5 hrs | 2.46 | 2.4 hrs | 1.54 |
| City of Alcoa Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| Maryville Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 70,519 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Blount County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blount County, TN annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/tennessee/blount-county