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2023 Smith County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Smith County, TN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 8,032 customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 2696th 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 Smith 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 | June 3, 2023 16:30 | June 3, 2023 19:00 | 2h 30m | 146 | 365 |
| 2 | June 3, 2023 21:00 | June 3, 2023 21:15 | 15m | 146 | 37 |
| 3 | August 15, 2023 17:30 | August 15, 2023 19:15 | 1h 45m | 146 | 256 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 06:00 | April 4, 2023 14:15 | 3d 8h | 114 | 6,306 |
| 5 | September 28, 2023 14:45 | September 28, 2023 16:00 | 1h 15m | 85 | 106 |
| 6 | October 19, 2023 00:15 | October 19, 2023 00:30 | 15m | 82 | 21 |
| 7 | June 6, 2023 18:30 | June 6, 2023 21:15 | 2h 45m | 77 | 193 |
| 8 | June 11, 2023 23:15 | June 12, 2023 04:45 | 5h 30m | 72 | 307 |
| 9 | December 5, 2023 14:45 | December 5, 2023 15:00 | 15m | 70 | 18 |
| 10 | January 3, 2023 23:15 | January 4, 2023 01:00 | 1h 45m | 57 | 100 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) | 2023 | 12.4 hrs | 4.01 | 5.7 hrs | 3.21 |
| Middle Tennessee E M C | 2023 | 74 min | 1.13 | 51 min | 0.98 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/smith-county