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

Power outage history

Scott County Tennessee

0.8hours

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

88% below the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 12, 2020 7% of customers out · 90% back in 14 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 0.8h / yr State average 5.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 22hours Jun 21, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 35% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 48 min without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,850 ORNL customer model · 1 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 Scott'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

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 48 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Scott, hours without power per customer

ScottUS median countyTennessee average
0 2 4 6 8 0.8 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 866 7% 15 h 14 h 7.1k
Jun 21, 2019 Thunderstorms 561 5% 22 h – 4.7k
Jun 3, 2019 No storm report 394 3% 1.0 h – 394
Feb 16, 2021 No storm report 147 1% 2.2 h – 309
Oct 26, 2019 No storm report 174 1% 1.2 h – 217
Sep 4, 2019 No storm report 196 2% 1.0 h – 196
Sep 13, 2019 No storm report 147 1% 1.2 h – 184
Jul 1, 2019 No storm report 274 2% 30 min – 137
Apr 13, 2020 No storm report 126 1% 1.0 h – 126
Feb 16, 2021 Ice storm 151 1% 30 min – 76
Oct 15, 2019 No storm report 140 1% 30 min – 70

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 Scott from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 65%
  • Thunderstorms 35%
  • Ice storm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Scott

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
Plateau Electric Cooperative Cooperative 26 5 5.81 14.0 14k
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 11,850 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 →