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2021 Pickett County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pickett County, TN went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1147th 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 Pickett 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 | July 30, 2021 09:45 | July 30, 2021 15:45 | 6h | 809 | 2,248 |
| 2 | February 18, 2021 15:30 | February 20, 2021 05:30 | 1d 14h | 574 | 2,110 |
| 3 | December 26, 2021 20:30 | December 26, 2021 21:30 | 1h | 563 | 492 |
| 4 | December 26, 2021 23:45 | December 27, 2021 01:30 | 1h 45m | 563 | 860 |
| 5 | July 16, 2021 07:15 | July 16, 2021 11:15 | 4h | 559 | 2,107 |
| 6 | August 24, 2021 17:00 | August 24, 2021 17:15 | 15m | 480 | 120 |
| 7 | March 27, 2021 12:45 | March 27, 2021 13:45 | 1h | 475 | 475 |
| 8 | July 19, 2021 18:30 | July 19, 2021 18:45 | 15m | 311 | 78 |
| 9 | June 3, 2021 10:45 | June 3, 2021 13:00 | 2h 15m | 285 | 596 |
| 10 | August 9, 2021 19:30 | August 10, 2021 03:00 | 7h 30m | 255 | 500 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 20 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 Pickett 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2021 | 23.7 hrs | 3.63 | 5.4 hrs | 2.57 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2021 | 14.4 hrs | - | 2.0 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 2021; 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, 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/pickett-county