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2019 Rutherford County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rutherford County, TN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 118K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 86 Tennessee counties and 2594th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Rutherford 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 | November 13, 2019 11:30 | November 13, 2019 12:45 | 1h 15m | 7,448 | 1,864 |
| 2 | June 21, 2019 11:45 | June 25, 2019 08:30 | 3d 20h | 6,299 | 31K |
| 3 | June 7, 2019 02:45 | June 7, 2019 19:00 | 16h 15m | 4,187 | 5,687 |
| 4 | July 20, 2019 09:30 | July 21, 2019 07:00 | 21h 30m | 3,695 | 4,207 |
| 5 | July 2, 2019 11:00 | July 3, 2019 00:45 | 13h 45m | 3,600 | 3,373 |
| 6 | March 7, 2019 12:30 | March 8, 2019 00:15 | 11h 45m | 3,478 | 1,566 |
| 7 | December 3, 2019 14:15 | December 3, 2019 23:45 | 9h 30m | 2,912 | 1,602 |
| 8 | July 18, 2019 01:00 | July 18, 2019 05:15 | 4h 15m | 2,874 | 1,475 |
| 9 | March 2, 2019 02:00 | March 2, 2019 22:30 | 20h 30m | 2,817 | 2,970 |
| 10 | March 16, 2019 07:00 | March 16, 2019 14:00 | 7h | 2,499 | 2,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 69 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duck River Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 1.62 | 1.5 hrs | 1.29 |
| Nashville Electric Service | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.56 | 1.8 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 73% of Tennessee's customers in 2019; 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, 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/rutherford-county