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

Power outage history

Bedford County Tennessee

3.0hours

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

55th most of 73 in Tennessee 55% below the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 16% of customers out · 90% back in 3.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.0h / yr State average 5.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 10hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.4days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 9.3 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 28,282 ORNL customer model · 8 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 Bedford'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bedford, hours without power per customer

BedfordUS median countyTennessee average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 2.5 ’15 ’16 ’17 1.2 ’18 1.2 ’19 2.4 ’20 9.3 ’21 2.0 ’22 4.7 ’23 1.6 ’24 1.3 ’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
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 4,481 16% 4.4 d 3.6 d 218k
Feb 16, 2015 Winter storm 2,617 9% 2.3 d 32 h 58k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 4,563 16% 14 h 9.2 h 45k
Aug 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,965 10% 21 h 20 h 21k
May 3, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,417 9% 18 h 17 h 19k
Mar 29, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,016 11% 11 h 9.8 h 16k
Jun 30, 2023 Heat 2,944 10% 14 h 13 h 14k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 978 3% 17 h – 12k
Apr 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,977 7% 7.0 h 6.0 h 9.9k
Jun 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,726 6% 10 h 3.8 h 8.9k
Feb 20, 2021 No storm report 1,177 4% 10 h – 7.0k
May 2, 2023 No storm report 3,379 12% 2.2 h 2.2 h 4.2k

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 +10h

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

  • Winter storm 46%
  • No storm on record 22%
  • Thunderstorms 18%
  • Windstorm 9.1%
  • Heat 2.8%
  • Tornadoes 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bedford

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
Duck River Elec Member Corp Cooperative 190 134 2.14 13.6 72k
City of Shelbyville Municipal 18 17 0.61 11.9 10.0k

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 28,282 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 →