Power Outages in Shelby County, TN
No live outage feed is available for Shelby County, TN yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 7.2 hours.
Shelby County, TN is served by local tracked utilities.
Shelby 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.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Shelby County has been under 9 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 19, 2026.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×3
- Dense Fog Advisory ×1
- Heat Advisory ×1
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Shelby County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Memphisno active outage
- Bartlettno active outage
- Colliervilleno active outage
- Germantownno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Shelby County went about 7.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 155,108 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 138,851 customers out) · decade average 14.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 443 | 38,123 | 6.3 |
| 2016 | 420 | 38,181 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 369 | 155,108 | 29.7 |
| 2018 | 331 | 35,223 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 256 | 35,329 | 4.8 |
| 2020 | 371 | 49,224 | 7.6 |
| 2021 | 260 | 30,282 | 7.2 |
| 2022 | 144 | 137,794 | 40.0 |
| 2023 | 195 | 138,851 | 40.7 |
| 2024 | 202 | 37,718 | 7.0 |
| 2025 | 214 | 73,352 | 7.2 |
Very High tornadoes exposure · 14.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Shelby County: FAQ
- How often does Shelby County, TN lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Shelby County, TN logged 214 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 7.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Shelby County, TN?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 155,108 customers without power, beginning May 27, 2017 and lasting about 5d 13h.
- Is there a power outage in Shelby County, TN right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Shelby County, TN. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Memphis, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Shelby County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Shelby County.
38002, 38016, 38017, 38018, 38029, 38053, 38054, 38103, 38104, 38105, 38106, 38107, 38108, 38109, 38111, 38112, 38113, 38114, 38115, 38116, 38117, 38118, 38119, 38120, 38122, 38125, 38126, 38127, 38128, 38131, 38132, 38133, 38134, 38135, 38138, 38139, 38141, 38152
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/47157 and /api/v1/counties/47157/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Tennessee customers).