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2020 Fentress County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fentress County, TN went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 672nd 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 Fentress 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 | April 12, 2020 23:15 | April 14, 2020 16:45 | 1d 17h | 4,590 | 32K |
| 2 | February 12, 2020 23:30 | February 13, 2020 07:30 | 8h | 2,921 | 8,195 |
| 3 | March 3, 2020 08:30 | March 3, 2020 17:30 | 9h | 2,798 | 20K |
| 4 | April 21, 2020 19:15 | April 21, 2020 21:30 | 2h 15m | 2,421 | 2,446 |
| 5 | April 29, 2020 15:00 | April 29, 2020 23:15 | 8h 15m | 2,401 | 8,559 |
| 6 | December 27, 2020 04:00 | December 27, 2020 05:15 | 1h 15m | 2,195 | 550 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 13:00 | January 12, 2020 10:30 | 21h 30m | 1,973 | 6,266 |
| 8 | April 26, 2020 05:00 | April 26, 2020 08:30 | 3h 30m | 1,889 | 2,836 |
| 9 | October 12, 2020 12:15 | October 12, 2020 15:00 | 2h 45m | 1,850 | 783 |
| 10 | November 15, 2020 09:45 | November 15, 2020 23:15 | 13h 30m | 1,718 | 2,697 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Fentress 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 |
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 ÷ 10,685 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. Fentress County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fentress 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/fentress-county