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2022 Smith County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Smith County, TN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 2,608 customer-hours (Tennessee average 9.2 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2890th 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 Smith 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 | April 14, 2022 01:15 | April 14, 2022 08:15 | 7h | 219 | 962 |
| 2 | July 21, 2022 20:00 | July 21, 2022 20:30 | 30m | 143 | 72 |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 15:30 | January 3, 2022 20:15 | 4h 45m | 85 | 112 |
| 4 | June 28, 2022 13:30 | June 28, 2022 16:30 | 3h | 77 | 231 |
| 5 | July 27, 2022 21:15 | July 27, 2022 23:15 | 2h | 68 | 136 |
| 6 | December 31, 2022 07:45 | December 31, 2022 10:00 | 2h 15m | 65 | 62 |
| 7 | March 30, 2022 20:15 | March 30, 2022 22:15 | 2h | 55 | 84 |
| 8 | December 31, 2022 11:00 | December 31, 2022 12:45 | 1h 45m | 55 | 96 |
| 9 | September 4, 2022 06:45 | September 4, 2022 07:30 | 45m | 54 | 41 |
| 10 | January 7, 2022 10:15 | January 7, 2022 14:00 | 3h 45m | 51 | 168 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2022 | 5.5 hrs | 4.22 | 4.1 hrs | 3.64 |
| Middle Tennessee E M C | 2022 | 89 min | 1.83 | 61 min | 1.15 |
| Upper Cumberland E M C | 2022 | 4.3 hrs | - | 2.2 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 75% of Tennessee's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,588 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. Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/smith-county