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2024 Pickett County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pickett County, TN went without power for an average of 50.8 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 198th 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 Pickett 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 | September 1, 2024 12:00 | September 1, 2024 14:00 | 2h | 3,549 | 1,371 |
| 2 | October 14, 2024 19:30 | October 15, 2024 12:30 | 17h | 3,545 | 60K |
| 3 | May 26, 2024 16:30 | May 30, 2024 16:00 | 3d 23h | 2,710 | 44K |
| 4 | July 30, 2024 19:45 | July 31, 2024 22:00 | 1d 2h | 1,877 | 3,976 |
| 5 | August 8, 2024 01:45 | August 8, 2024 04:00 | 2h 15m | 1,818 | 2,801 |
| 6 | April 23, 2024 14:00 | April 23, 2024 14:30 | 30m | 1,813 | 906 |
| 7 | January 10, 2024 01:45 | January 10, 2024 05:00 | 3h 15m | 1,807 | 3,943 |
| 8 | May 22, 2024 22:45 | May 23, 2024 15:00 | 16h 15m | 1,175 | 4,713 |
| 9 | February 28, 2024 14:15 | February 28, 2024 16:45 | 2h 30m | 1,055 | 1,107 |
| 10 | April 11, 2024 21:00 | April 11, 2024 22:30 | 1h 30m | 1,049 | 1,574 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 40 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Electric Coop | 2024 | 11.4 hrs | 5.80 | 7.3 hrs | 5.02 |
| South Kentucky Rural E C C | 2024 | 12.1 hrs | 2.71 | 5.0 hrs | 2.16 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/pickett-county