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2023 Pickett County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pickett County, TN went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 563rd 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 Pickett 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 | January 15, 2023 05:00 | January 15, 2023 17:00 | 12h | 1,757 | 7,365 |
| 2 | August 27, 2023 18:15 | August 27, 2023 23:15 | 5h | 1,416 | 2,347 |
| 3 | November 21, 2023 07:00 | November 21, 2023 11:45 | 4h 45m | 1,028 | 1,924 |
| 4 | November 21, 2023 03:00 | November 21, 2023 04:45 | 1h 45m | 1,027 | 1,028 |
| 5 | November 6, 2023 13:30 | November 6, 2023 14:30 | 1h | 1,026 | 370 |
| 6 | October 24, 2023 16:00 | October 24, 2023 17:15 | 1h 15m | 1,025 | 1,281 |
| 7 | March 3, 2023 20:15 | March 6, 2023 19:15 | 2d 23h | 726 | 15K |
| 8 | February 1, 2023 17:00 | February 1, 2023 17:45 | 45m | 586 | 294 |
| 9 | March 25, 2023 10:45 | March 25, 2023 15:15 | 4h 30m | 500 | 669 |
| 10 | March 26, 2023 02:15 | March 26, 2023 04:45 | 2h 30m | 500 | 1,250 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Pickett 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 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2023 | 28.6 hrs | 2.95 | 4.2 hrs | 1.79 |
| 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 n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,876 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. Pickett County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickett 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/pickett-county