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2020 Van Buren County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Van Buren County, TN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 368 customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2937th 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 Van Buren 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 | June 21, 2020 14:15 | June 21, 2020 15:30 | 1h 15m | 190 | 103 |
| 2 | January 6, 2020 14:00 | January 6, 2020 14:15 | 15m | 78 | 20 |
| 3 | June 14, 2020 22:15 | June 14, 2020 23:45 | 1h 30m | 62 | 32 |
| 4 | June 21, 2020 21:30 | June 21, 2020 23:30 | 2h | 40 | 26 |
| 5 | August 30, 2020 15:00 | August 30, 2020 15:30 | 30m | 34 | 17 |
| 6 | January 4, 2020 05:30 | January 4, 2020 06:30 | 1h | 13 | 4 |
| 7 | June 4, 2020 17:15 | June 4, 2020 18:00 | 45m | 13 | 5 |
| 8 | October 14, 2020 18:00 | October 14, 2020 19:15 | 1h 15m | 13 | 5 |
| 9 | December 13, 2020 14:00 | December 13, 2020 15:30 | 1h 30m | 13 | 13 |
| 10 | October 11, 2020 02:45 | October 11, 2020 04:00 | 1h 15m | 12 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Van Buren 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2020 | 6.1 hrs | 3.74 | 2.9 hrs | 2.50 |
| Caney Fork 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 ÷ 2,866 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. Van Buren County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Buren 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/van-buren-county