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2019 Smith County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Smith County, TN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.7 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 86 Tennessee counties and 2160th 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 Smith 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 | March 24, 2019 04:45 | March 24, 2019 07:15 | 2h 30m | 3,448 | 8,620 |
| 2 | March 7, 2019 15:15 | March 7, 2019 18:00 | 2h 45m | 1,425 | 3,919 |
| 3 | February 12, 2019 22:00 | February 12, 2019 22:15 | 15m | 962 | 241 |
| 4 | June 24, 2019 17:30 | June 24, 2019 19:00 | 1h 30m | 350 | 525 |
| 5 | September 25, 2019 21:15 | September 26, 2019 00:00 | 2h 45m | 137 | 377 |
| 6 | July 24, 2019 04:45 | July 24, 2019 06:30 | 1h 45m | 85 | 149 |
| 7 | June 18, 2019 12:15 | June 18, 2019 13:00 | 45m | 81 | 61 |
| 8 | January 1, 2019 21:30 | January 1, 2019 22:15 | 45m | 75 | 52 |
| 9 | April 23, 2019 13:30 | April 23, 2019 13:45 | 15m | 74 | 19 |
| 10 | April 24, 2019 13:30 | April 24, 2019 15:45 | 2h 15m | 74 | 167 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 3.38 | 3.3 hrs | 3.12 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.4 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 73% of Tennessee's customers in 2019; 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, 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/smith-county