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2020 Cheatham County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cheatham County, TN went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 831st 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 Cheatham 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 3, 2020 06:30 | March 4, 2020 21:00 | 1d 14h | 9,676 | 49K |
| 2 | May 3, 2020 20:45 | May 9, 2020 10:15 | 5d 13h | 4,524 | 45K |
| 3 | December 2, 2020 15:45 | December 2, 2020 16:15 | 30m | 3,485 | 1,542 |
| 4 | April 28, 2020 12:45 | April 28, 2020 14:00 | 1h 15m | 3,347 | 1,695 |
| 5 | June 29, 2020 17:15 | June 29, 2020 18:15 | 1h | 3,037 | 760 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 05:15 | June 6, 2020 06:30 | 1h 15m | 2,847 | 1,916 |
| 7 | June 4, 2020 12:45 | June 4, 2020 17:30 | 4h 45m | 1,774 | 1,286 |
| 8 | December 18, 2020 17:45 | December 18, 2020 18:15 | 30m | 1,336 | 668 |
| 9 | May 9, 2020 23:15 | May 11, 2020 00:15 | 1d 1h | 1,325 | 3,418 |
| 10 | August 3, 2020 14:30 | August 3, 2020 21:00 | 6h 30m | 1,324 | 682 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 46 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 Cheatham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Tennessee E M C | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.58 | 58 min | 1.05 |
| City of Dickson | 2020 | 15.9 hrs | 4.52 | 2.7 hrs | 3.74 |
| Nashville Electric Service | 2020 | 30.9 hrs | 2.52 | 1.7 hrs | 1.44 |
| Cumberland Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,430 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. Cheatham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cheatham 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/cheatham-county