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2025 McMinn County, TN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in McMinn County, TN went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (Tennessee average 4.3 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 81 Tennessee counties and 1631st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with TN, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Tennessee customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in McMinn County, 2025
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 20, 2025 06:15 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 14h 15m | 2,817 | 7,964 |
| 2 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | March 21, 2025 02:15 | 2h 45m | 2,817 | 7,747 |
| 3 | March 4, 2025 19:45 | March 7, 2025 00:45 | 2d 5h | 2,500 | 19K |
| 4 | April 18, 2025 12:45 | April 18, 2025 15:30 | 2h 45m | 1,923 | 2,885 |
| 5 | March 25, 2025 14:15 | March 25, 2025 23:15 | 9h | 1,538 | 9,165 |
| 6 | March 7, 2025 18:30 | March 7, 2025 22:00 | 3h 30m | 1,518 | 2,342 |
| 7 | March 15, 2025 19:45 | March 16, 2025 21:15 | 1d 1h | 1,430 | 4,044 |
| 8 | December 19, 2025 02:45 | December 21, 2025 00:00 | 1d 21h | 1,290 | 9,190 |
| 9 | November 11, 2025 11:45 | November 11, 2025 17:45 | 6h | 1,044 | 2,052 |
| 10 | July 31, 2025 18:45 | August 1, 2025 02:30 | 7h 45m | 1,032 | 1,754 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 80 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/tennessee/mcminn-county