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2024 McMinn County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McMinn County, TN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.8 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 1970th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in McMinn County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 30, 2024 19:15 | August 1, 2024 01:00 | 1d 5h | 3,477 | 13K |
| 2 | July 29, 2024 12:15 | July 29, 2024 12:45 | 30m | 2,928 | 1,464 |
| 3 | September 27, 2024 09:00 | September 28, 2024 10:45 | 1d 1h | 2,871 | 7,176 |
| 4 | September 28, 2024 12:45 | September 28, 2024 19:15 | 6h 30m | 1,907 | 3,261 |
| 5 | May 9, 2024 02:15 | May 11, 2024 01:30 | 1d 23h | 1,904 | 17K |
| 6 | October 12, 2024 03:00 | October 12, 2024 08:45 | 5h 45m | 1,625 | 5,289 |
| 7 | October 26, 2024 03:00 | October 26, 2024 07:45 | 4h 45m | 1,621 | 6,492 |
| 8 | May 4, 2024 01:45 | May 4, 2024 07:30 | 5h 45m | 1,617 | 1,436 |
| 9 | May 18, 2024 18:00 | May 19, 2024 06:45 | 12h 45m | 1,075 | 5,888 |
| 10 | March 30, 2024 06:15 | March 30, 2024 06:45 | 30m | 1,012 | 253 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 69 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 McMinn County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 11.4 hrs | 5.80 | 7.3 hrs | 5.02 |
| 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 n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/tennessee/mcminn-county