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2021 Bedford County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bedford County, TN went without power for an average of 11.2 hours, a total of 318K customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 715th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bedford County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 15, 2021 14:45 | February 21, 2021 21:45 | 6d 7h | 33,277 | 265K |
| 2 | March 1, 2021 04:00 | March 1, 2021 10:00 | 6h | 26,649 | 7,063 |
| 3 | March 5, 2021 14:15 | March 5, 2021 16:30 | 2h 15m | 26,559 | 13K |
| 4 | March 22, 2021 13:15 | March 22, 2021 22:45 | 9h 30m | 2,617 | 1,336 |
| 5 | July 12, 2021 14:15 | July 12, 2021 22:30 | 8h 15m | 1,267 | 336 |
| 6 | December 6, 2021 13:45 | December 7, 2021 02:30 | 12h 45m | 1,195 | 4,109 |
| 7 | May 10, 2021 00:30 | May 10, 2021 05:45 | 5h 15m | 1,175 | 1,435 |
| 8 | September 23, 2021 15:00 | September 23, 2021 23:45 | 8h 45m | 1,060 | 1,137 |
| 9 | May 4, 2021 11:45 | May 4, 2021 22:15 | 10h 30m | 849 | 2,175 |
| 10 | September 6, 2021 02:15 | September 7, 2021 18:45 | 1d 16h | 788 | 4,051 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 34 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Bedford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duck River Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 7.7 hrs | 2.06 | 2.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| City of Shelbyville - (TN) | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 2.40 | 24 min | 0.31 |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 28,282 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. Bedford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bedford County, TN annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/tennessee/bedford-county