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2021 Van Buren County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Van Buren County, TN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,032 customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2839th 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 Van Buren 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 12, 2021 09:00 | February 12, 2021 10:15 | 1h 15m | 696 | 538 |
| 2 | February 22, 2021 12:00 | February 22, 2021 13:15 | 1h 15m | 69 | 70 |
| 3 | August 4, 2021 14:00 | August 4, 2021 15:15 | 1h 15m | 41 | 17 |
| 4 | February 7, 2021 12:30 | February 8, 2021 00:45 | 12h 15m | 28 | 72 |
| 5 | February 28, 2021 12:45 | February 28, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 13 | 14 |
| 6 | March 26, 2021 03:45 | March 26, 2021 06:00 | 2h 15m | 13 | 23 |
| 7 | April 17, 2021 15:15 | April 17, 2021 17:15 | 2h | 8 | 15 |
| 8 | September 20, 2021 02:30 | September 20, 2021 05:00 | 2h 30m | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | August 22, 2021 21:30 | August 23, 2021 13:15 | 15h 45m | 7 | 53 |
| 10 | April 5, 2021 14:30 | April 5, 2021 15:00 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 3.71 | 4.5 hrs | 3.34 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/van-buren-county