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2016 Rutherford County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rutherford County, TN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 51 Tennessee counties and 1917th 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 Rutherford 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 | September 11, 2016 12:15 | September 11, 2016 15:45 | 3h 30m | 9,337 | 11K |
| 2 | June 15, 2016 21:45 | June 19, 2016 11:30 | 3d 13h | 8,008 | 32K |
| 3 | August 1, 2016 13:00 | August 1, 2016 14:30 | 1h 30m | 2,551 | 657 |
| 4 | August 2, 2016 23:30 | August 3, 2016 07:45 | 8h 15m | 2,372 | 4,158 |
| 5 | August 2, 2016 12:15 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 4h | 2,343 | 755 |
| 6 | July 9, 2016 02:30 | July 10, 2016 17:00 | 1d 14h | 2,268 | 10K |
| 7 | June 28, 2016 12:15 | June 28, 2016 12:30 | 15m | 2,210 | 553 |
| 8 | November 15, 2016 14:30 | November 15, 2016 23:00 | 8h 30m | 2,146 | 571 |
| 9 | October 30, 2016 16:45 | October 30, 2016 18:30 | 1h 45m | 2,125 | 3,431 |
| 10 | June 22, 2016 14:00 | June 22, 2016 19:45 | 5h 45m | 2,057 | 2,065 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 59 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Rutherford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duck River Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.34 | 85 min | 1.25 |
| Nashville Electric Service | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.73 | 2.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Middle Tennessee E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 157,588 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. Rutherford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rutherford 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/rutherford-county