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2022 McMinn County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in McMinn County, TN went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (Tennessee average 9.2 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1506th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in McMinn County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 31, 2022 02:00 | April 1, 2022 17:15 | 1d 15h | 3,307 | 23K |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 18:30 | June 18, 2022 23:30 | 1d 5h | 2,331 | 16K |
| 3 | March 12, 2022 05:15 | March 12, 2022 22:45 | 17h 30m | 2,073 | 13K |
| 4 | July 5, 2022 15:30 | July 5, 2022 15:45 | 15m | 1,801 | 450 |
| 5 | April 1, 2022 18:30 | April 1, 2022 21:45 | 3h 15m | 1,798 | 2,249 |
| 6 | October 29, 2022 11:30 | October 29, 2022 16:30 | 5h | 1,793 | 902 |
| 7 | October 22, 2022 04:00 | October 22, 2022 07:45 | 3h 45m | 1,792 | 5,821 |
| 8 | March 23, 2022 17:30 | March 24, 2022 05:45 | 12h 15m | 954 | 4,639 |
| 9 | January 16, 2022 22:30 | January 17, 2022 00:45 | 2h 15m | 930 | 2,091 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 05:45 | December 24, 2022 21:30 | 1d 15h | 881 | 7,845 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 70 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 McMinn County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 8.7 hrs | 4.56 | 6.7 hrs | 4.09 |
| City of Sweetwater | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athens Utility Board | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Etowah | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 75% of Tennessee's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,371 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. McMinn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McMinn County, TN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/tennessee/mcminn-county