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2023 Putnam County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Putnam County, TN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 2828th 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 Putnam 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 | March 3, 2023 18:30 | March 5, 2023 02:15 | 1d 7h | 1,311 | 4,725 |
| 2 | July 1, 2023 20:15 | July 2, 2023 03:00 | 6h 45m | 1,102 | 1,315 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 07:30 | April 2, 2023 03:00 | 19h 30m | 556 | 3,912 |
| 4 | June 30, 2023 13:30 | June 30, 2023 15:30 | 2h | 546 | 554 |
| 5 | December 5, 2023 19:00 | December 5, 2023 20:15 | 1h 15m | 519 | 260 |
| 6 | November 29, 2023 18:30 | November 29, 2023 19:00 | 30m | 518 | 259 |
| 7 | December 1, 2023 14:30 | December 1, 2023 15:45 | 1h 15m | 518 | 389 |
| 8 | May 9, 2023 05:15 | May 9, 2023 06:30 | 1h 15m | 516 | 441 |
| 9 | February 4, 2023 15:15 | February 4, 2023 16:00 | 45m | 503 | 258 |
| 10 | August 12, 2023 18:45 | August 13, 2023 02:45 | 8h | 442 | 1,385 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2023; 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, 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/putnam-county