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2019 Van Buren County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Van Buren County, TN went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 86 Tennessee counties and 806th 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 Van Buren 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 | October 26, 2019 17:00 | October 27, 2019 08:00 | 15h | 3,165 | 9,249 |
| 2 | November 16, 2019 13:00 | November 16, 2019 17:15 | 4h 15m | 1,904 | 4,007 |
| 3 | April 26, 2019 23:15 | April 27, 2019 00:15 | 1h | 1,553 | 1,165 |
| 4 | June 20, 2019 10:30 | June 21, 2019 03:45 | 17h 15m | 597 | 1,286 |
| 5 | December 4, 2019 21:15 | December 4, 2019 23:15 | 2h | 464 | 472 |
| 6 | July 25, 2019 17:30 | July 25, 2019 18:45 | 1h 15m | 462 | 128 |
| 7 | July 9, 2019 00:45 | July 9, 2019 03:45 | 3h | 272 | 447 |
| 8 | May 31, 2019 19:45 | May 31, 2019 20:30 | 45m | 271 | 203 |
| 9 | September 14, 2019 21:30 | September 15, 2019 03:30 | 6h | 170 | 393 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 04:45 | November 27, 2019 05:30 | 45m | 159 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Van Buren 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 7.0 hrs | 3.05 | 3.0 hrs | 2.51 |
| Caney Fork Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,866 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. Van Buren County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Buren 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/van-buren-county