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2020 Monroe County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Monroe County, TN went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 143K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1530th 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 Monroe 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 22:15 | April 14, 2020 22:15 | 2d | 2,485 | 41K |
| 2 | May 1, 2020 16:45 | May 1, 2020 19:00 | 2h 15m | 2,091 | 3,649 |
| 3 | February 12, 2020 23:30 | February 13, 2020 22:30 | 23h | 1,288 | 1,385 |
| 4 | July 21, 2020 00:30 | July 21, 2020 09:00 | 8h 30m | 1,267 | 2,491 |
| 5 | June 5, 2020 13:45 | June 5, 2020 15:15 | 1h 30m | 1,253 | 628 |
| 6 | December 24, 2020 22:00 | December 27, 2020 03:00 | 2d 5h | 1,200 | 19K |
| 7 | April 23, 2020 12:30 | April 24, 2020 02:15 | 13h 45m | 1,092 | 5,743 |
| 8 | March 11, 2020 22:15 | March 11, 2020 22:30 | 15m | 1,062 | 266 |
| 9 | June 24, 2020 10:00 | June 24, 2020 16:45 | 6h 45m | 952 | 272 |
| 10 | December 8, 2020 13:15 | December 9, 2020 01:00 | 11h 45m | 931 | 512 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 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 Monroe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Loudoun Electric Coop | 2020 | 7.7 hrs | 2.92 | 6.7 hrs | 2.82 |
| City of Sweetwater | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,868 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county