Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Meigs County Tennessee

11hours

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

6th most of 73 in Tennessee 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 7, 2023 43% of customers out · 90% back in 24 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 5.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 11.6 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 47hours Apr 21, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 10% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,967 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 Meigs's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Meigs, hours without power per customer

MeigsUS median countyTennessee average
0 5 10 15 20 25 8.4 ’19 12 ’20 5.4 ’21 8.8 ’22 19 ’23 12 ’24 14 ’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
Aug 7, 2023 No storm report 2,997 43% 31 h 24 h 31k
Dec 18, 2025 No storm report 2,005 29% 23 h 17 h 20k
Apr 21, 2023 No storm report 3,882 56% 5.2 h 2.0 h 20k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 1,516 22% 30 h 19 h 18k
Jun 21, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,632 23% 21 h 18 h 17k
Apr 19, 2024 No storm report 2,475 36% 5.8 h 8.5 h 14k
May 5, 2025 No storm report 1,030 15% 13 h 6.8 h 13k
Mar 4, 2025 No storm report 2,625 38% 15 h 6.2 h 11k
Jun 13, 2020 No storm report 2,156 31% 4.8 h 8.8 h 10k
Jul 22, 2019 No storm report 872 13% 18 h 10 h 9.6k
May 9, 2024 No storm report 1,264 18% 13 h 9.8 h 9.3k
May 14, 2020 No storm report 911 13% 8.0 h 8.0 h 7.3k

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 +8h 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 Meigs from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 90%
  • Thunderstorms 7.2%
  • Tornadoes 0.9%
  • Tropical storm 0.6%
  • Winter storm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Meigs

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

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 6,967 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 →