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2023 Meigs County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Meigs County, TN went without power for an average of 19.1 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (Tennessee average 11.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 83 Tennessee counties and 436th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Meigs County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 21, 2023 23:00 | April 22, 2023 05:30 | 6h 30m | 3,882 | 20K |
| 2 | January 19, 2023 07:15 | January 19, 2023 10:45 | 3h 30m | 3,838 | 3,222 |
| 3 | August 7, 2023 17:30 | August 7, 2023 19:30 | 2h | 2,997 | 4,449 |
| 4 | April 14, 2023 11:15 | April 14, 2023 13:00 | 1h 45m | 2,443 | 1,223 |
| 5 | February 18, 2023 21:00 | February 18, 2023 23:30 | 2h 30m | 2,413 | 1,325 |
| 6 | August 7, 2023 20:15 | August 9, 2023 19:45 | 1d 23h | 2,243 | 27K |
| 7 | October 6, 2023 16:15 | October 6, 2023 22:30 | 6h 15m | 1,762 | 1,843 |
| 8 | March 3, 2023 15:45 | March 6, 2023 00:15 | 2d 8h | 1,516 | 19K |
| 9 | July 11, 2023 21:45 | July 12, 2023 01:15 | 3h 30m | 1,512 | 1,857 |
| 10 | February 17, 2023 21:00 | February 18, 2023 00:45 | 3h 45m | 1,211 | 3,627 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 52 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 17.6 hrs | 6.37 | 7.2 hrs | 5.15 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/tennessee/meigs-county