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2023 Van Buren County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Van Buren County, TN went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 915th 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 Van Buren 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 7, 2023 17:30 | August 11, 2023 21:45 | 4d 4h | 698 | 21K |
| 2 | January 25, 2023 11:15 | January 25, 2023 14:15 | 3h | 124 | 254 |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 17:30 | March 5, 2023 21:45 | 2d 4h | 95 | 3,231 |
| 4 | July 28, 2023 04:45 | July 28, 2023 06:30 | 1h 45m | 68 | 87 |
| 5 | December 3, 2023 08:45 | December 3, 2023 11:15 | 2h 30m | 67 | 39 |
| 6 | May 10, 2023 15:45 | May 10, 2023 16:45 | 1h | 57 | 44 |
| 7 | June 20, 2023 01:30 | June 20, 2023 09:45 | 8h 15m | 57 | 403 |
| 8 | August 3, 2023 11:30 | August 3, 2023 13:00 | 1h 30m | 57 | 61 |
| 9 | November 7, 2023 12:30 | November 13, 2023 14:45 | 6d 2h | 29 | 156 |
| 10 | June 19, 2023 18:00 | June 19, 2023 20:45 | 2h 45m | 23 | 26 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Van Buren 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 8.1 hrs | 3.42 | 3.8 hrs | 2.98 |
| Caney Fork Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,866 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. Van Buren County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Buren 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/van-buren-county