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2020 Meigs County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Meigs County, TN went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Tennessee average 6.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 675th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Meigs County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 13, 2020 10:15 | June 13, 2020 15:00 | 4h 45m | 2,156 | 10K |
| 2 | December 26, 2020 11:45 | December 26, 2020 18:00 | 6h 15m | 1,661 | 4,999 |
| 3 | November 29, 2020 04:30 | November 29, 2020 05:45 | 1h 15m | 1,617 | 2,021 |
| 4 | March 1, 2020 09:30 | March 1, 2020 13:30 | 4h | 1,548 | 4,573 |
| 5 | October 14, 2020 09:45 | October 14, 2020 10:30 | 45m | 1,540 | 1,147 |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 19:00 | August 25, 2020 20:45 | 1h 45m | 1,539 | 1,921 |
| 7 | August 10, 2020 18:15 | August 10, 2020 21:30 | 3h 15m | 1,342 | 1,814 |
| 8 | December 2, 2020 14:45 | December 2, 2020 15:00 | 15m | 1,024 | 256 |
| 9 | August 30, 2020 12:30 | August 30, 2020 14:00 | 1h 30m | 976 | 1,218 |
| 10 | December 23, 2020 14:30 | December 23, 2020 16:15 | 1h 45m | 966 | 1,686 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 55 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Meigs County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Electric Coop | 2020 | 4.5 hrs | 2.74 | 52 min | 2.25 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 73% of Tennessee's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,967 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Meigs County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meigs County, TN annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/tennessee/meigs-county