County annual report · FIPS 47007
2020 Bledsoe County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bledsoe County, TN went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1570th 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 Bledsoe 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 | August 31, 2020 00:45 | August 31, 2020 04:15 | 3h 30m | 872 | 446 |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 13:45 | July 11, 2020 15:45 | 2h | 748 | 1,148 |
| 3 | March 29, 2020 08:30 | March 31, 2020 17:00 | 2d 8h | 589 | 14K |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 03:15 | October 29, 2020 14:00 | 10h 45m | 552 | 1,185 |
| 5 | June 23, 2020 01:00 | June 23, 2020 03:45 | 2h 45m | 512 | 264 |
| 6 | July 1, 2020 13:30 | July 1, 2020 14:30 | 1h | 469 | 235 |
| 7 | March 24, 2020 19:00 | March 24, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 452 | 113 |
| 8 | June 24, 2020 04:00 | June 24, 2020 04:45 | 45m | 443 | 332 |
| 9 | August 1, 2020 14:30 | August 1, 2020 15:15 | 45m | 442 | 332 |
| 10 | March 6, 2020 16:45 | March 7, 2020 03:00 | 10h 15m | 441 | 4,519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Bledsoe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Electric Coop | 2020 | 4.5 hrs | 2.74 | 52 min | 2.25 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2020 | 19.9 hrs | 1.47 | 86 min | 0.71 |
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2020 | 6.1 hrs | 3.74 | 2.9 hrs | 2.50 |
| City of Dayton - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,566 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. Bledsoe County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bledsoe 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/bledsoe-county