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Who serves Putnam County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Tennessee Electric Cooperatives ↗ and Volunteer Energy Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Cookeville also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Putnam County, TN
Last significant outage: Aug 22, 2026 — peaked at 200 customers, restored in ~7 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Putnam County, TN
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
82 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Tennessee norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2 hr.
Largest on record: ~2,330 customers out in December 2024, restored after about 30 min. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Putnam County
Communities in Putnam County include Cookeville, Algood, Monterey and Baxter. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Putnam County, TN?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Putnam include Tennessee Electric Cooperatives, Volunteer Energy Cooperative and City of Cookeville — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
