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2024 Rhea County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rhea County, TN went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.8 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 84 Tennessee counties and 2249th 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 Rhea 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 | September 25, 2024 23:15 | September 26, 2024 01:00 | 1h 45m | 1,708 | 1,282 |
| 2 | March 15, 2024 10:45 | March 15, 2024 16:15 | 5h 30m | 1,676 | 703 |
| 3 | March 23, 2024 01:30 | March 23, 2024 03:30 | 2h | 1,674 | 1,254 |
| 4 | April 11, 2024 23:15 | April 12, 2024 13:45 | 14h 30m | 1,259 | 2,234 |
| 5 | October 26, 2024 16:00 | October 26, 2024 20:00 | 4h | 1,141 | 1,133 |
| 6 | December 21, 2024 04:15 | December 21, 2024 12:15 | 8h | 1,139 | 926 |
| 7 | September 28, 2024 15:15 | September 28, 2024 19:00 | 3h 45m | 1,138 | 344 |
| 8 | May 9, 2024 01:45 | May 11, 2024 18:15 | 2d 16h | 1,010 | 5,147 |
| 9 | September 1, 2024 21:45 | September 2, 2024 02:00 | 4h 15m | 995 | 2,075 |
| 10 | September 5, 2024 14:00 | September 5, 2024 14:45 | 45m | 993 | 249 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 41 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 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 Chattanooga - (TN) | 2021 | 73 min | 0.60 | 59 min | 0.53 |
| Sequachee Valley Electric Coop | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 3.09 | 4.2 hrs | 2.69 |
| 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 n/a of Tennessee's customers in 2024; 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, 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/rhea-county