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2016 Smith County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Smith County, TN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 8,102 customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 51 Tennessee counties and 1820th 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 Smith 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 26, 2016 11:30 | July 26, 2016 11:45 | 15m | 3,357 | 839 |
| 2 | August 15, 2016 19:15 | August 15, 2016 19:30 | 15m | 1,385 | 346 |
| 3 | August 2, 2016 12:45 | August 2, 2016 13:30 | 45m | 1,380 | 1,035 |
| 4 | February 3, 2016 08:15 | February 3, 2016 10:00 | 1h 45m | 1,378 | 2,412 |
| 5 | February 5, 2016 20:30 | February 5, 2016 20:45 | 15m | 1,377 | 344 |
| 6 | November 9, 2016 20:45 | November 10, 2016 00:45 | 4h | 396 | 1,584 |
| 7 | March 2, 2016 17:30 | March 2, 2016 17:45 | 15m | 391 | 98 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 05:00 | July 7, 2016 05:45 | 45m | 345 | 259 |
| 9 | August 25, 2016 20:15 | August 25, 2016 21:30 | 1h 15m | 118 | 148 |
| 10 | January 10, 2016 17:00 | January 10, 2016 22:15 | 5h 15m | 72 | 378 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 Smith 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 | - |
| 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 ÷ 8,588 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. Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/smith-county