Power outage history
Lincoln County Tennessee
The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.
Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 1% of customers out · lasted 8.2 hoursEvery day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Lincoln's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
Lincoln, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 189 | 1% | 8.2 h | – | 1.6k |
| May 14, 2024 | No storm report | 192 | 1% | 2.0 h | – | 384 |
| May 19, 2018 | No storm report | 269 | 1% | 1.5 h | – | 202 |
| Nov 1, 2018 | No storm report | 263 | 1% | 48 min | – | 197 |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 269 | 1% | 30 min | – | 134 |
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 100%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lincoln
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 Fayetteville | Municipal | 229 | 187 | 3.04 | 12.5 | 17k |
| City of Pulaski | Municipal | 443 | 163 | 3.81 | 14.1 | 12k |
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
- Giles 8.7 h
- Moore 7.1 h
- Franklin 3.0 h
- Bedford 3.0 h
- Madison, AL 2.2 h
- Marshall 2.2 h
- Limestone, AL 0.0 h
- Lincoln (this county) – h
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 18,299 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 →