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2016 Cheatham County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cheatham County, TN went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 51 Tennessee counties and 866th 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 Cheatham 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 | December 18, 2016 02:00 | December 18, 2016 12:00 | 10h | 2,792 | 1,211 |
| 2 | September 6, 2016 22:30 | September 6, 2016 23:00 | 30m | 2,756 | 1,378 |
| 3 | May 4, 2016 21:30 | May 5, 2016 06:00 | 8h 30m | 2,753 | 3,517 |
| 4 | July 9, 2016 01:30 | July 10, 2016 09:00 | 1d 7h | 1,701 | 5,978 |
| 5 | June 23, 2016 16:30 | June 25, 2016 04:00 | 1d 11h | 1,602 | 5,973 |
| 6 | July 19, 2016 20:45 | July 20, 2016 02:00 | 5h 15m | 1,564 | 1,620 |
| 7 | April 16, 2016 19:00 | April 16, 2016 21:30 | 2h 30m | 1,449 | 2,185 |
| 8 | June 14, 2016 17:00 | June 14, 2016 21:30 | 4h 30m | 1,135 | 613 |
| 9 | July 22, 2016 22:45 | July 23, 2016 07:30 | 8h 45m | 932 | 1,399 |
| 10 | June 15, 2016 20:45 | June 17, 2016 01:30 | 1d 4h | 831 | 3,103 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 42 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Cheatham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Dickson | 2016 | 3.3 hrs | 2.05 | 3.0 hrs | 1.99 |
| Nashville Electric Service | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.73 | 2.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Middle Tennessee E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cumberland Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,430 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. Cheatham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cheatham 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/cheatham-county