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2016 Macon County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Macon County, TN went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 51 Tennessee counties and 477th 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 Macon 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 | March 27, 2016 11:00 | March 27, 2016 12:15 | 1h 15m | 3,667 | 1,889 |
| 2 | September 30, 2016 22:45 | September 30, 2016 23:45 | 1h | 3,664 | 1,992 |
| 3 | July 9, 2016 01:45 | July 9, 2016 23:45 | 22h | 3,500 | 22K |
| 4 | May 12, 2016 19:45 | May 13, 2016 00:30 | 4h 45m | 1,797 | 989 |
| 5 | June 1, 2016 21:00 | June 2, 2016 02:00 | 5h | 1,291 | 1,605 |
| 6 | July 13, 2016 07:15 | July 13, 2016 07:45 | 30m | 1,279 | 639 |
| 7 | September 24, 2016 12:00 | September 24, 2016 15:30 | 3h 30m | 1,276 | 2,278 |
| 8 | November 19, 2016 07:00 | November 19, 2016 10:30 | 3h 30m | 1,276 | 4,291 |
| 9 | September 25, 2016 00:15 | September 25, 2016 13:15 | 13h | 1,252 | 1,320 |
| 10 | July 6, 2016 20:00 | July 7, 2016 01:00 | 5h | 1,246 | 434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 51 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Macon 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 ÷ 13,771 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. Macon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Macon 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/macon-county