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2021 Bledsoe County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bledsoe County, TN went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1279th 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 Bledsoe 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 | November 15, 2021 09:15 | November 16, 2021 12:30 | 1d 3h | 1,146 | 2,359 |
| 2 | May 4, 2021 14:00 | May 5, 2021 00:30 | 10h 30m | 1,144 | 989 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 23:00 | June 22, 2021 03:45 | 4h 45m | 874 | 2,762 |
| 4 | September 22, 2021 12:15 | September 22, 2021 17:45 | 5h 30m | 773 | 980 |
| 5 | June 12, 2021 23:30 | June 13, 2021 08:45 | 9h 15m | 651 | 1,424 |
| 6 | May 5, 2021 01:15 | May 5, 2021 07:15 | 6h | 575 | 1,028 |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 14:15 | December 12, 2021 01:00 | 10h 45m | 575 | 1,616 |
| 8 | August 31, 2021 12:15 | September 8, 2021 17:15 | 8d 5h | 568 | 1,763 |
| 9 | August 17, 2021 13:45 | August 17, 2021 18:15 | 4h 30m | 563 | 1,960 |
| 10 | January 28, 2021 01:15 | January 28, 2021 15:45 | 14h 30m | 557 | 4,294 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 34 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Bledsoe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Electric Coop | 2021 | 8.6 hrs | 5.13 | 5.3 hrs | 4.64 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2021 | 73 min | 0.60 | 59 min | 0.53 |
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 3.71 | 4.5 hrs | 3.34 |
| City of Dayton - (TN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,566 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. Bledsoe County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bledsoe 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/bledsoe-county