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2019 Washington County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Washington County, TN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Tennessee average 2.7 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 86 Tennessee counties and 2356th 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 Washington 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 30, 2019 12:30 | November 11, 2019 20:45 | 12d 8h | 8,195 | 9,617 |
| 2 | August 29, 2019 11:00 | August 30, 2019 18:30 | 1d 7h | 6,518 | 4,249 |
| 3 | August 13, 2019 13:00 | August 20, 2019 23:30 | 7d 10h | 5,719 | 5,025 |
| 4 | October 1, 2019 10:45 | October 11, 2019 20:45 | 10d 10h | 4,614 | 11K |
| 5 | November 23, 2019 19:15 | November 24, 2019 18:45 | 23h 30m | 4,574 | 12K |
| 6 | December 7, 2019 12:30 | December 16, 2019 16:15 | 9d 3h | 3,641 | 5,003 |
| 7 | October 26, 2019 04:45 | October 26, 2019 13:00 | 8h 15m | 3,319 | 8,994 |
| 8 | August 12, 2019 11:45 | August 12, 2019 23:45 | 12h | 2,819 | 885 |
| 9 | October 13, 2019 12:15 | October 13, 2019 15:15 | 3h | 2,796 | 721 |
| 10 | July 31, 2019 12:15 | July 31, 2019 22:15 | 10h | 1,995 | 1,569 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson City - (TN) | 2018 | 25 min | 0.26 | 24 min | 0.26 |
| Kingsport Power Co | 2018 | 14.9 hrs | 2.51 | 5.1 hrs | 1.94 |
| City of Elizabethton - (TN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Erwin - (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 ÷ 86,325 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county