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2017 Rutherford County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rutherford County, TN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Tennessee average 5.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 68 Tennessee counties and 2438th 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 Rutherford 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 | December 7, 2017 08:00 | December 7, 2017 09:15 | 1h 15m | 3,375 | 1,175 |
| 2 | June 4, 2017 13:30 | June 5, 2017 02:00 | 12h 30m | 2,460 | 2,790 |
| 3 | February 20, 2017 12:45 | February 21, 2017 00:15 | 11h 30m | 2,227 | 666 |
| 4 | June 23, 2017 10:45 | June 23, 2017 23:00 | 12h 15m | 2,204 | 1,699 |
| 5 | December 7, 2017 01:30 | December 7, 2017 04:15 | 2h 45m | 2,053 | 4,620 |
| 6 | April 30, 2017 19:00 | May 1, 2017 20:00 | 1d 1h | 1,959 | 1,758 |
| 7 | March 1, 2017 13:45 | March 2, 2017 19:45 | 1d 6h | 1,762 | 3,533 |
| 8 | May 28, 2017 00:00 | May 28, 2017 07:15 | 7h 15m | 1,558 | 886 |
| 9 | December 24, 2017 13:00 | December 24, 2017 15:30 | 2h 30m | 1,491 | 739 |
| 10 | June 8, 2017 02:15 | June 8, 2017 03:30 | 1h 15m | 1,453 | 1,454 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 36 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duck River Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.70 | 1.8 hrs | 1.36 |
| Nashville Electric Service | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.54 | 1.8 hrs | 1.47 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/rutherford-county