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2020 Pickett County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pickett County, TN went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 788th 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 Pickett 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 | September 28, 2020 21:00 | September 28, 2020 21:30 | 30m | 2,813 | 705 |
| 2 | August 12, 2020 15:15 | August 12, 2020 16:30 | 1h 15m | 2,809 | 1,405 |
| 3 | March 15, 2020 01:30 | March 15, 2020 02:45 | 1h 15m | 2,798 | 2,053 |
| 4 | March 3, 2020 08:00 | March 3, 2020 19:00 | 11h | 1,546 | 11K |
| 5 | February 15, 2020 08:15 | February 15, 2020 13:45 | 5h 30m | 700 | 3,497 |
| 6 | February 27, 2020 17:15 | February 27, 2020 20:30 | 3h 15m | 700 | 714 |
| 7 | August 25, 2020 06:00 | August 25, 2020 09:15 | 3h 15m | 696 | 2,262 |
| 8 | November 25, 2020 14:00 | November 25, 2020 15:30 | 1h 30m | 487 | 626 |
| 9 | February 3, 2020 14:00 | February 3, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 411 | 210 |
| 10 | January 11, 2020 13:30 | January 12, 2020 12:00 | 22h 30m | 385 | 2,462 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Pickett 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2020 | 6.3 hrs | 2.35 | 4.5 hrs | 2.05 |
| 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 ÷ 2,876 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. Pickett County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickett 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/pickett-county