⚡ No power in Rhea, TN? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Volunteer Energy Cooperative, Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative and EPB ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Dayton also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Rhea County, TN
Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 580 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Rhea County, TN
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
187 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Tennessee norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2 hr.
Largest on record: ~7,403 customers out in February 2025, restored after about 2 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Rhea County include Dayton, Spring City and Graysville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Rhea County, TN?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rhea include Volunteer Energy Cooperative, Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative, EPB and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
