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2020 Fayette County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fayette County, TN went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1544th 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 Fayette 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 01:30 | March 29, 2020 22:45 | 21h 15m | 4,720 | 18K |
| 2 | May 22, 2020 22:00 | May 23, 2020 22:30 | 1d | 4,148 | 13K |
| 3 | November 18, 2020 20:30 | November 19, 2020 00:30 | 4h | 2,006 | 1,015 |
| 4 | June 13, 2020 10:30 | June 13, 2020 10:45 | 15m | 1,977 | 494 |
| 5 | February 21, 2020 16:15 | February 21, 2020 17:15 | 1h | 1,947 | 493 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 11:15 | January 11, 2020 20:30 | 9h 15m | 1,841 | 4,999 |
| 7 | April 9, 2020 03:30 | April 9, 2020 23:00 | 19h 30m | 1,828 | 8,836 |
| 8 | July 11, 2020 03:15 | July 11, 2020 04:00 | 45m | 1,809 | 1,352 |
| 9 | June 5, 2020 18:00 | June 6, 2020 06:15 | 12h 15m | 1,345 | 5,240 |
| 10 | February 5, 2020 09:45 | February 5, 2020 12:30 | 2h 45m | 919 | 1,413 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 83 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolivar Energy Authority | 2020 | 78 min | 1.00 | 36 min | 0.66 |
| Southwest Tennessee E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chickasaw Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,058 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county