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2021 Monroe County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Monroe County, TN went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Tennessee average 3.7 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1728th 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 Monroe 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 | January 1, 2021 08:00 | January 1, 2021 09:15 | 1h 15m | 4,768 | 2,376 |
| 2 | July 18, 2021 02:30 | July 18, 2021 08:30 | 6h | 2,574 | 6,998 |
| 3 | December 11, 2021 09:30 | December 12, 2021 20:30 | 1d 11h | 2,400 | 15K |
| 4 | October 18, 2021 00:45 | October 18, 2021 04:45 | 4h | 1,622 | 3,374 |
| 5 | September 28, 2021 07:45 | September 28, 2021 21:45 | 14h | 1,434 | 586 |
| 6 | November 1, 2021 12:30 | November 2, 2021 11:45 | 23h 15m | 1,385 | 2,442 |
| 7 | May 3, 2021 16:45 | May 3, 2021 18:45 | 2h | 1,292 | 1,343 |
| 8 | October 28, 2021 11:30 | October 28, 2021 20:30 | 9h | 1,135 | 2,108 |
| 9 | June 15, 2021 20:45 | June 15, 2021 22:00 | 1h 15m | 1,026 | 273 |
| 10 | March 27, 2021 15:45 | March 27, 2021 21:45 | 6h | 952 | 1,279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 81 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Monroe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Loudoun Electric Coop | 2021 | 4.5 hrs | 2.56 | 4.5 hrs | 2.56 |
| City of Sweetwater | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 32,868 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county