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2022 Putnam County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Putnam County, TN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 5,909 customer-hours (Tennessee average 9.2 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2919th 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 Putnam 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 9, 2022 14:45 | February 9, 2022 15:00 | 15m | 1,168 | 292 |
| 2 | May 4, 2022 13:00 | May 4, 2022 13:15 | 15m | 1,158 | 290 |
| 3 | August 6, 2022 20:00 | August 6, 2022 23:30 | 3h 30m | 1,155 | 1,072 |
| 4 | July 3, 2022 23:00 | July 4, 2022 01:30 | 2h 30m | 925 | 311 |
| 5 | March 6, 2022 23:30 | March 6, 2022 23:45 | 15m | 495 | 124 |
| 6 | April 13, 2022 06:30 | April 13, 2022 06:45 | 15m | 495 | 124 |
| 7 | March 16, 2022 06:30 | March 16, 2022 07:15 | 45m | 487 | 365 |
| 8 | July 28, 2022 19:00 | July 28, 2022 20:15 | 1h 15m | 331 | 191 |
| 9 | June 22, 2022 07:00 | June 22, 2022 08:15 | 1h 15m | 330 | 413 |
| 10 | March 31, 2022 03:45 | March 31, 2022 06:15 | 2h 30m | 329 | 429 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Electric Coop | 2022 | 8.7 hrs | 4.56 | 6.7 hrs | 4.09 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2022 | 4.3 hrs | - | 2.2 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 75% of Tennessee's customers in 2022; 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, 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/putnam-county