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2020 Bedford County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bedford County, TN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2062nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2020
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 29, 2020 06:45 | March 30, 2020 04:00 | 21h 15m | 3,016 | 18K |
| 2 | May 3, 2020 22:15 | May 6, 2020 01:45 | 2d 3h | 2,417 | 25K |
| 3 | November 11, 2020 19:00 | November 11, 2020 21:00 | 2h | 2,070 | 519 |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 00:45 | February 6, 2020 08:15 | 7h 30m | 1,517 | 2,887 |
| 5 | May 30, 2020 18:15 | May 30, 2020 20:30 | 2h 15m | 1,040 | 1,062 |
| 6 | April 1, 2020 18:15 | April 1, 2020 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,031 | 286 |
| 7 | April 15, 2020 12:15 | April 15, 2020 17:30 | 5h 15m | 1,015 | 272 |
| 8 | June 19, 2020 20:15 | June 19, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 794 | 199 |
| 9 | October 16, 2020 12:45 | October 16, 2020 22:00 | 9h 15m | 780 | 280 |
| 10 | July 12, 2020 11:45 | July 12, 2020 22:00 | 10h 15m | 761 | 517 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 6.1 hrs | 2.08 | 1.9 hrs | 1.49 |
| City of Shelbyville - (TN) | 2020 | 60 min | 0.93 | 16 min | 0.20 |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 28,282 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, TN annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/tennessee/bedford-county