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2019 Putnam County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Putnam County, TN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.7 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 86 Tennessee counties and 2718th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Putnam County, 2019
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 25, 2019 14:30 | July 25, 2019 19:15 | 4h 45m | 1,979 | 539 |
| 2 | October 26, 2019 17:00 | October 27, 2019 06:30 | 13h 30m | 1,942 | 2,942 |
| 3 | December 4, 2019 21:15 | December 4, 2019 23:15 | 2h | 817 | 914 |
| 4 | December 14, 2019 23:15 | December 15, 2019 06:00 | 6h 45m | 684 | 1,425 |
| 5 | June 22, 2019 02:30 | June 24, 2019 00:45 | 1d 22h | 551 | 4,420 |
| 6 | October 15, 2019 12:15 | October 15, 2019 16:30 | 4h 15m | 400 | 203 |
| 7 | June 20, 2019 10:15 | June 21, 2019 01:30 | 15h 15m | 380 | 654 |
| 8 | August 7, 2019 07:45 | August 7, 2019 12:00 | 4h 15m | 350 | 1,426 |
| 9 | October 22, 2019 04:30 | October 22, 2019 06:45 | 2h 15m | 344 | 614 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 13:30 | November 27, 2019 16:45 | 3h 15m | 343 | 248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 23 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Putnam County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Volunteer Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caney Fork Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cookeville - (TN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 73% of Tennessee's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 50,117 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. Putnam County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam County, TN annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/tennessee/putnam-county