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2024 Fayette County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Fayette County, TN went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.8 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1729th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 24, 2024 19:30 | July 24, 2024 21:00 | 1h 30m | 5,568 | 3,398 |
| 2 | May 27, 2024 00:15 | May 31, 2024 18:30 | 4d 18h | 2,964 | 7,550 |
| 3 | April 8, 2024 21:15 | April 13, 2024 03:00 | 4d 5h | 2,370 | 18K |
| 4 | September 12, 2024 06:00 | September 12, 2024 09:30 | 3h 30m | 2,131 | 6,454 |
| 5 | September 12, 2024 18:45 | September 13, 2024 02:15 | 7h 30m | 1,571 | 3,509 |
| 6 | June 7, 2024 11:00 | June 7, 2024 12:15 | 1h 15m | 1,493 | 1,864 |
| 7 | June 2, 2024 12:00 | June 2, 2024 16:15 | 4h 15m | 1,482 | 1,838 |
| 8 | February 29, 2024 19:45 | February 29, 2024 21:45 | 2h | 1,304 | 328 |
| 9 | October 7, 2024 13:30 | October 7, 2024 17:30 | 4h | 1,153 | 1,449 |
| 10 | November 12, 2024 16:15 | November 12, 2024 21:15 | 5h | 1,072 | 4,675 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 86 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Fayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Tennessee E M C | 2023 | 11.7 hrs | 3.98 | 3.9 hrs | 2.67 |
| Bolivar Energy Authority | 2024 | 5.6 hrs | 1.88 | 1.9 hrs | 1.10 |
| Chickasaw 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 22,058 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette County, TN annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/tennessee/fayette-county