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2020 Clay County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, TN went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 967th 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 Clay 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 | July 9, 2020 06:30 | July 9, 2020 07:45 | 1h 15m | 2,716 | 1,868 |
| 2 | March 20, 2020 18:45 | March 20, 2020 19:00 | 15m | 2,707 | 677 |
| 3 | June 15, 2020 03:30 | June 15, 2020 12:15 | 8h 45m | 1,994 | 6,593 |
| 4 | June 10, 2020 13:00 | June 10, 2020 13:30 | 30m | 1,942 | 578 |
| 5 | August 31, 2020 12:30 | August 31, 2020 13:00 | 30m | 1,932 | 505 |
| 6 | March 29, 2020 06:30 | March 29, 2020 12:00 | 5h 30m | 1,589 | 6,014 |
| 7 | June 14, 2020 22:15 | June 14, 2020 23:15 | 1h | 1,550 | 452 |
| 8 | October 28, 2020 16:45 | October 28, 2020 19:00 | 2h 15m | 965 | 2,107 |
| 9 | October 28, 2020 23:45 | October 29, 2020 01:30 | 1h 45m | 965 | 1,689 |
| 10 | June 28, 2020 17:30 | June 28, 2020 20:00 | 2h 30m | 951 | 2,320 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 2.90 | 4.6 hrs | 2.90 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2020 | 9.5 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 4,055 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county