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2024 Putnam County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Putnam County, TN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.8 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2889th 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 Putnam 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 | December 5, 2024 13:00 | December 5, 2024 13:30 | 30m | 2,330 | 1,165 |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 16:00 | September 27, 2024 21:45 | 5h 45m | 2,280 | 1,967 |
| 3 | June 2, 2024 16:15 | June 2, 2024 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1,287 | 649 |
| 4 | March 2, 2024 21:00 | March 2, 2024 22:15 | 1h 15m | 1,283 | 642 |
| 5 | January 12, 2024 16:15 | January 13, 2024 07:00 | 14h 45m | 837 | 2,781 |
| 6 | March 16, 2024 22:15 | March 17, 2024 05:30 | 7h 15m | 632 | 1,470 |
| 7 | December 25, 2024 19:15 | December 25, 2024 22:15 | 3h | 577 | 333 |
| 8 | June 3, 2024 12:15 | June 3, 2024 12:45 | 30m | 438 | 219 |
| 9 | April 17, 2024 06:15 | April 17, 2024 06:30 | 15m | 436 | 109 |
| 10 | December 29, 2024 15:30 | December 30, 2024 01:00 | 9h 30m | 262 | 1,072 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/putnam-county