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2022 Rhea County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rhea County, TN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Tennessee average 9.2 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2120th 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 Rhea 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 | December 23, 2022 04:00 | December 24, 2022 22:15 | 1d 18h | 1,868 | 9,391 |
| 2 | November 30, 2022 12:30 | December 1, 2022 03:30 | 15h | 1,410 | 2,456 |
| 3 | June 20, 2022 19:00 | June 21, 2022 04:45 | 9h 45m | 1,374 | 699 |
| 4 | December 13, 2022 16:15 | December 13, 2022 16:45 | 30m | 1,374 | 348 |
| 5 | August 31, 2022 14:00 | August 31, 2022 14:15 | 15m | 1,365 | 341 |
| 6 | August 4, 2022 00:00 | August 4, 2022 07:45 | 7h 45m | 1,292 | 3,739 |
| 7 | December 18, 2022 16:00 | December 18, 2022 23:00 | 7h | 1,111 | 2,781 |
| 8 | April 22, 2022 12:15 | April 22, 2022 13:00 | 45m | 1,110 | 555 |
| 9 | March 31, 2022 02:00 | March 31, 2022 16:30 | 14h 30m | 984 | 2,360 |
| 10 | June 27, 2022 00:00 | June 27, 2022 02:30 | 2h 30m | 913 | 915 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 25 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 Rhea 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 Chattanooga - (TN) | 2021 | 73 min | 0.60 | 59 min | 0.53 |
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2022 | 5.2 hrs | 3.48 | 4.3 hrs | 3.19 |
| City of Dayton - (TN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,177 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. Rhea County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rhea 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/rhea-county