Power outages in Tennessee
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
135
customers reported out statewide · 6 counties reporting · 1 with 50+ customers out
Updated 12:35 AM CDT.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Shelby — 72 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Tennessee counties (95)
- Anderson
- Bedford
- Benton
- Bledsoe
- Blount
- Bradley
- Campbell
- Cannon
- Carroll
- Carter
- Cheatham
- Chester
- Claiborne
- Clay
- Cocke
- Coffee
- Crockett
- Cumberland
- Davidson
- Decatur
- DeKalb
- Dickson
- Dyer
- Fayette
- Fentress
- Franklin
- Gibson
- Giles
- Grainger
- Greene
- Grundy
- Hamblen
- Hamilton
- Hancock
- Hardeman
- Hardin
- Hawkins
- Haywood
- Henderson
- Henry
- Hickman
- Houston
- Humphreys
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Johnson
- Knox
- Lake
- Lauderdale
- Lawrence
- Lewis
- Lincoln
- Loudon
- Macon
- Madison
- Marion
- Marshall
- Maury
- McMinn
- McNairy
- Meigs
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Moore
- Morgan
- Obion
- Overton
- Perry
- Pickett
- Polk
- Putnam
- Rhea
- Roane
- Robertson
- Rutherford
- Scott
- Sequatchie
- Sevier
- Shelby
- Smith
- Stewart
- Sullivan
- Sumner
- Tipton
- Trousdale
- Unicoi
- Union
- Van Buren
- Warren
- Washington
- Wayne
- Weakley
- White
- Williamson
- Wilson
Utility coverage in Tennessee
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Nashville Electric Service (NES) · Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) · Appalachian Power (AEP) · AEP (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Tennessee Electric Cooperatives (TECA statewide map) · Middle Tennessee EMC (TN) · Knoxville Utilities Board (TN) · EPB (Chattanooga, TN) · Volunteer Energy Cooperative (TN) · CDE Lightband (Clarksville, TN) · BrightRidge (Johnson City, TN) · Duck River EMC (TN) · Sevier County Electric System (TN) · Appalachian Electric Cooperative (TN) · Southwest Tennessee EMC (TN) · Tri-County EMC (TN) · +9 more — search any utility name on the live map
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Tennessee.
Historical outage patterns in Tennessee
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 30,417 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Tennessee between 2014 and 2025 for the 79 counties the federal record covers — 319 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (32% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2022.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~155,108 customers out in Shelby County in May 2017, restored after about 5.3 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: March 2023 (16 counties), September 2024 (11 counties) and December 2022 (9 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Shelby County (~10.3 hr typical), Sullivan County (~4.3 hr typical) and Knox County (~4 hr typical) — against ~2 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Tennessee?
Electric utilities we track in Tennessee include Nashville Electric Service; Memphis Light, Gas & Water; Tennessee Electric Cooperatives; Middle Tennessee EMC; and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.