Power Out Map
– 0% of Pickett out 0 customers out in Tennessee

Power outage history

Pickett County Tennessee

15hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

2nd most of 73 in Tennessee 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 14, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 26 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 5.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.3days May 26, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 29% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 47 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,876 ORNL customer model · 7 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Pickett's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 47 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pickett, hours without power per customer

PickettUS median countyTennessee average
0 20 40 60 3.1 ’19 9.7 ’20 6.0 ’21 6.8 ’22 15 ’23 47 ’24 15 ’25 US 6.6 TN 5.8

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 14, 2024 No storm report 2,876 100% 17 h 26 h 49k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,710 94% 2.3 d 8.0 h 44k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 726 25% 2.1 d 9.2 h 14k
Mar 3, 2020 No storm report 1,546 54% 10 h 3.0 h 11k
Jan 22, 2025 No storm report 1,822 63% 11 h 1.8 h 11k
Jan 14, 2023 No storm report 1,757 61% 12 h 48 min 7.4k
Mar 4, 2025 Windstorm 776 27% 19 h 12 h 7.2k
Feb 21, 2025 No storm report 2,876 100% 3.0 h 3.0 h 6.6k
May 22, 2024 No storm report 1,175 41% 10 h 4.8 h 4.6k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 1,807 63% 3.2 h 1.2 h 3.9k
Jul 30, 2024 No storm report 1,877 65% 4.8 h 48 min 3.9k
Jul 21, 2022 Thunderstorms 477 17% 17 h 13 h 3.9k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pickett from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 71%
  • Thunderstorms 19%
  • Windstorm 7.7%
  • Winter storm 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pickett

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Tennessee territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Volunteer Electric Coop Cooperative 685 436 5.80 13.1 105k
Upper Cumberland E M C Cooperative 344 255 – 13.7 46k
South Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative – – – 14.0 148

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Tennessee

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Tennessee counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 2,876 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →