County annual report · FIPS 47027
2016 Clay County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Clay County, TN went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 51 Tennessee counties and 392nd 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 Clay 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 | June 27, 2016 07:15 | June 27, 2016 12:00 | 4h 45m | 2,550 | 5,862 |
| 2 | October 20, 2016 15:15 | October 20, 2016 15:30 | 15m | 2,321 | 580 |
| 3 | June 27, 2016 18:15 | June 27, 2016 19:00 | 45m | 1,902 | 946 |
| 4 | February 3, 2016 00:45 | February 3, 2016 02:15 | 1h 30m | 1,646 | 1,646 |
| 5 | July 9, 2016 03:00 | July 9, 2016 10:45 | 7h 45m | 1,075 | 4,017 |
| 6 | October 18, 2016 02:30 | October 18, 2016 04:45 | 2h 15m | 968 | 695 |
| 7 | August 7, 2016 12:30 | August 7, 2016 13:45 | 1h 15m | 966 | 1,208 |
| 8 | March 15, 2016 15:30 | March 15, 2016 18:15 | 2h 45m | 957 | 1,198 |
| 9 | March 20, 2016 20:45 | March 21, 2016 14:30 | 17h 45m | 938 | 9,201 |
| 10 | April 6, 2016 23:45 | April 7, 2016 03:00 | 3h 15m | 594 | 1,776 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 31 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2016 | 5.3 hrs | 3.80 | 4.6 hrs | 3.60 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 4,055 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county