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2023 Bledsoe County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bledsoe County, TN went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 173K customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 335th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bledsoe County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 6, 2023 12:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 42d 7h | 4,086 | 118K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 16:30 | March 8, 2023 14:30 | 4d 22h | 1,256 | 21K |
| 3 | January 12, 2023 16:15 | January 20, 2023 21:45 | 8d 5h | 1,034 | 1,598 |
| 4 | May 20, 2023 19:15 | May 20, 2023 22:15 | 3h | 802 | 1,604 |
| 5 | April 1, 2023 16:00 | April 2, 2023 10:00 | 18h | 746 | 5,470 |
| 6 | March 25, 2023 06:30 | March 27, 2023 12:45 | 2d 6h | 718 | 2,111 |
| 7 | April 15, 2023 18:15 | April 16, 2023 00:00 | 5h 45m | 516 | 2,965 |
| 8 | June 25, 2023 18:30 | June 26, 2023 05:45 | 11h 15m | 515 | 1,555 |
| 9 | September 17, 2023 20:15 | October 18, 2023 17:00 | 30d 20h | 501 | 4,908 |
| 10 | June 19, 2023 14:00 | June 19, 2023 16:00 | 2h | 495 | 882 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 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 Bledsoe County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 17.6 hrs | 6.37 | 7.2 hrs | 5.15 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2021 | 73 min | 0.60 | 59 min | 0.53 |
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 8.1 hrs | 3.42 | 3.8 hrs | 2.98 |
| City of Dayton - (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 n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,566 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. Bledsoe County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bledsoe County, TN annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/tennessee/bledsoe-county