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2017 Blount County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Blount County, TN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Tennessee average 5.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 68 Tennessee counties and 1472nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 19, 2017 08:00 | October 19, 2017 08:15 | 15m | 5,964 | 1,491 |
| 2 | May 27, 2017 15:45 | May 31, 2017 15:30 | 3d 23h | 5,116 | 69K |
| 3 | October 5, 2017 12:00 | October 5, 2017 16:00 | 4h | 3,920 | 1,041 |
| 4 | May 4, 2017 11:00 | May 6, 2017 20:45 | 2d 9h | 3,854 | 32K |
| 5 | July 11, 2017 08:45 | July 11, 2017 09:00 | 15m | 2,634 | 659 |
| 6 | April 28, 2017 14:30 | April 28, 2017 15:30 | 1h | 2,213 | 556 |
| 7 | April 6, 2017 00:30 | April 6, 2017 07:30 | 7h | 2,166 | 8,982 |
| 8 | July 28, 2017 14:45 | July 28, 2017 16:00 | 1h 15m | 2,092 | 634 |
| 9 | September 21, 2017 12:00 | September 21, 2017 19:30 | 7h 30m | 2,019 | 540 |
| 10 | January 14, 2017 04:45 | January 14, 2017 08:15 | 3h 30m | 2,010 | 2,010 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 96 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Blount County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville Utilities Board | 2017 | 4.1 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.44 |
| Fort Loudoun Electric Coop | 2017 | 8.9 hrs | 3.37 | 7.2 hrs | 3.18 |
| Sevier County Electric System | 2017 | 14.0 hrs | 2.93 | 6.3 hrs | 2.13 |
| City of Alcoa Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| Maryville Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 70,519 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. Blount County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blount County, TN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/tennessee/blount-county