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2020 Claiborne County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Claiborne County, TN went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1421st 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 Claiborne 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 | December 24, 2020 15:00 | December 26, 2020 08:30 | 1d 17h | 7,595 | 11K |
| 2 | August 15, 2020 18:15 | August 15, 2020 18:30 | 15m | 4,024 | 1,006 |
| 3 | August 7, 2020 19:30 | August 7, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 3,994 | 999 |
| 4 | July 28, 2020 01:15 | July 28, 2020 06:00 | 4h 45m | 3,898 | 1,190 |
| 5 | July 31, 2020 21:45 | August 3, 2020 00:15 | 2d 2h | 3,186 | 53K |
| 6 | October 28, 2020 02:15 | October 28, 2020 02:30 | 15m | 1,552 | 388 |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 19:45 | November 11, 2020 22:45 | 3h | 1,057 | 1,105 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 17:15 | October 30, 2020 05:30 | 12h 15m | 1,049 | 1,596 |
| 9 | November 18, 2020 04:15 | November 18, 2020 06:15 | 2h | 907 | 1,020 |
| 10 | November 18, 2020 14:30 | November 18, 2020 14:45 | 15m | 869 | 217 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Claiborne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. | 2020 | 33.5 hrs | 6.41 | 6.5 hrs | 3.25 |
| Powell Valley Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 88 min | 1.44 |
| City of LaFollette | 2020 | 9.6 hrs | 5.30 | 5.6 hrs | 4.90 |
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 ÷ 21,378 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. Claiborne County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Claiborne 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/claiborne-county