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2022 Fayette County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Fayette County, TN went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 369K customer-hours (Tennessee average 9.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 403rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette County, 2022
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 3, 2022 12:45 | March 1, 2022 13:45 | 26d 1h | 9,758 | 206K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 14:00 | December 23, 2022 22:45 | 8h 45m | 5,761 | 4,268 |
| 3 | November 14, 2022 18:30 | November 14, 2022 22:15 | 3h 45m | 4,552 | 3,809 |
| 4 | December 24, 2022 11:30 | December 24, 2022 20:45 | 9h 15m | 4,377 | 8,633 |
| 5 | August 25, 2022 06:15 | August 25, 2022 13:30 | 7h 15m | 2,782 | 16K |
| 6 | May 15, 2022 23:15 | May 16, 2022 23:00 | 23h 45m | 2,268 | 14K |
| 7 | August 21, 2022 04:30 | August 21, 2022 21:00 | 16h 30m | 2,222 | 15K |
| 8 | March 30, 2022 16:15 | April 4, 2022 15:45 | 4d 23h | 2,219 | 9,496 |
| 9 | June 6, 2022 16:15 | June 7, 2022 15:15 | 23h | 2,180 | 2,248 |
| 10 | June 10, 2022 13:45 | June 10, 2022 14:15 | 30m | 2,180 | 546 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 90 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Fayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Tennessee E M C | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 5.35 | 2.7 hrs | 2.76 |
| Bolivar Energy Authority | 2022 | 7.7 hrs | 4.37 | 1.6 hrs | 1.66 |
| Chickasaw 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 75% of Tennessee's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 22,058 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette County, TN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/tennessee/fayette-county