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2021 Meigs County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Meigs County, TN went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1190th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Meigs County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 3, 2021 03:00 | August 3, 2021 05:15 | 2h 15m | 1,662 | 1,962 |
| 2 | August 20, 2021 12:15 | August 20, 2021 12:30 | 15m | 1,621 | 405 |
| 3 | December 14, 2021 15:30 | December 14, 2021 15:45 | 15m | 1,619 | 405 |
| 4 | September 29, 2021 12:00 | September 29, 2021 12:15 | 15m | 1,613 | 403 |
| 5 | February 2, 2021 18:15 | February 2, 2021 18:30 | 15m | 1,602 | 401 |
| 6 | October 11, 2021 14:00 | October 11, 2021 15:15 | 1h 15m | 1,407 | 358 |
| 7 | March 6, 2021 18:15 | March 6, 2021 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,395 | 1,824 |
| 8 | March 1, 2021 06:15 | March 1, 2021 20:30 | 14h 15m | 1,159 | 2,805 |
| 9 | August 10, 2021 11:45 | August 10, 2021 13:15 | 1h 30m | 1,039 | 1,036 |
| 10 | April 26, 2021 19:45 | April 26, 2021 23:30 | 3h 45m | 1,033 | 3,614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 45 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 8.6 hrs | 5.13 | 5.3 hrs | 4.64 |
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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/tennessee/meigs-county