Power Outages in Polk County, TN
No live outage feed is available for Polk County, TN yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 8.3 hours.
Polk County, TN is served by local tracked utilities.
Polk County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Polk County right now.
Polk County has been under 9 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Watch on July 13, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×7
- Flash Flood Warning ×1
- Flood Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Polk County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Polk County went about 8.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 6,675 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 6,675 customers out) · decade average 6.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 51 | 71 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 53 | 244 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 663 | 1,170 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 359 | 3,869 | 10.7 |
| 2021 | 405 | 3,876 | 8.0 |
| 2022 | 410 | 3,862 | 10.8 |
| 2023 | 468 | 6,675 | 18.4 |
| 2024 | 478 | 4,533 | 13.2 |
| 2025 | 428 | 2,627 | 8.3 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 6.6 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Polk County: FAQ
- How often does Polk County, TN lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Polk County, TN logged 428 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 8.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Polk County, TN?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 6,675 customers without power, beginning October 14, 2023 and lasting about 4h.
- Is there a power outage in Polk County, TN right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Polk County, TN. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Polk County.
37307, 37316, 37317, 37325, 37326, 37333, 37361, 37362, 37369, 37391
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/47139 and /api/v1/counties/47139/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Tennessee customers).