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2021 Putnam County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Putnam County, TN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 6,099 customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2912th 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 Putnam 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 7, 2021 09:30 | February 8, 2021 05:45 | 20h 15m | 527 | 4,062 |
| 2 | May 9, 2021 23:15 | May 10, 2021 00:00 | 45m | 130 | 98 |
| 3 | June 17, 2021 11:30 | June 17, 2021 13:15 | 1h 45m | 92 | 139 |
| 4 | January 1, 2021 22:45 | January 1, 2021 23:15 | 30m | 80 | 40 |
| 5 | March 28, 2021 12:00 | March 28, 2021 13:15 | 1h 15m | 80 | 34 |
| 6 | May 24, 2021 11:00 | May 24, 2021 12:30 | 1h 30m | 73 | 110 |
| 7 | February 22, 2021 09:00 | February 22, 2021 11:00 | 2h | 72 | 144 |
| 8 | January 31, 2021 02:00 | January 31, 2021 04:00 | 2h | 67 | 131 |
| 9 | March 28, 2021 21:30 | March 28, 2021 23:15 | 1h 45m | 67 | 101 |
| 10 | August 17, 2021 22:45 | August 18, 2021 00:30 | 1h 45m | 59 | 95 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 2 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 Putnam 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 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2021 | 14.4 hrs | - | 2.0 hrs | - |
| Caney Fork Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cookeville - (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 ÷ 50,117 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. Putnam County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county