County annual report · FIPS 47141
2025 Putnam County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Putnam County, TN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.3 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 81 Tennessee counties and 2710th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Putnam County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 16, 2025 03:30 | March 17, 2025 04:00 | 1d | 2,070 | 14K |
| 2 | March 5, 2025 01:15 | March 7, 2025 00:00 | 1d 22h | 1,928 | 32K |
| 3 | May 6, 2025 02:45 | May 6, 2025 04:15 | 1h 30m | 1,288 | 1,610 |
| 4 | November 18, 2025 16:15 | November 18, 2025 17:00 | 45m | 688 | 172 |
| 5 | June 28, 2025 21:45 | June 29, 2025 03:30 | 5h 45m | 678 | 1,698 |
| 6 | May 15, 2025 09:30 | May 15, 2025 16:00 | 6h 30m | 677 | 1,387 |
| 7 | March 20, 2025 07:45 | March 20, 2025 09:30 | 1h 45m | 458 | 687 |
| 8 | March 25, 2025 21:30 | March 26, 2025 01:45 | 4h 15m | 458 | 1,033 |
| 9 | June 10, 2025 13:00 | June 10, 2025 14:00 | 1h | 447 | 363 |
| 10 | October 11, 2025 06:15 | October 11, 2025 11:15 | 5h | 279 | 459 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/tennessee/putnam-county