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Who serves Rutherford County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Middle Tennessee EMC, Nashville Electric Service and Duck River EMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Rutherford County, TN
⚡ Power here was restored about 24 hours ago — the outage peaked at 992 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 992 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Rutherford County, TN
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
734 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
7 major events of 10,000+ customers.
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: ~20,637 customers out in December 2022, restored after about 12.5 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.
Cities we track in Rutherford County
Communities in Rutherford County include Murfreesboro, Smyrna, La Vergne, Eagleville, Christiana, Rockvale and Walterhill. 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 Rutherford County, TN?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rutherford include Middle Tennessee EMC, Nashville Electric Service and Duck River EMC — 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.
