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2023 Fentress County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fentress County, TN went without power for an average of 14.8 hours, a total of 158K customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 589th 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 Fentress 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 | February 19, 2023 23:15 | February 20, 2023 00:45 | 1h 30m | 8,307 | 3,852 |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 17:00 | March 6, 2023 06:45 | 2d 13h | 5,594 | 63K |
| 3 | July 31, 2023 18:00 | July 31, 2023 23:15 | 5h 15m | 4,729 | 9,038 |
| 4 | November 27, 2023 07:00 | November 27, 2023 11:15 | 4h 15m | 3,527 | 6,460 |
| 5 | July 1, 2023 22:45 | July 2, 2023 15:15 | 16h 30m | 3,516 | 3,542 |
| 6 | July 22, 2023 18:30 | July 22, 2023 21:30 | 3h | 3,511 | 2,627 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 08:00 | April 2, 2023 05:45 | 21h 45m | 3,361 | 8,154 |
| 8 | July 29, 2023 21:45 | July 31, 2023 00:45 | 1d 3h | 3,155 | 10K |
| 9 | July 20, 2023 09:45 | July 21, 2023 07:45 | 22h | 2,719 | 2,934 |
| 10 | July 19, 2023 16:30 | July 19, 2023 17:30 | 1h | 2,523 | 637 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 43 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Fentress 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 |
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 ÷ 10,685 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. Fentress County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fentress 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/fentress-county