Power outages in Shelby County, TN
We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Shelby County yet. City of Memphis - (TN) serves this county.
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City of Memphis - (TN)no live feedServes this county, per federal utility records.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
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Outage history in Shelby County
2014–2025 recordShelby County averaged 45 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Tennessee counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 32. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 29 hours, starting April 2, 2025.
The largest on record began May 28, 2017, with 155,108 customers out at once.
45significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.1 hourtypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.9.4 dayslongest on record (February 2022)
155,108most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| May 28, 2017 | 155,108 | 7.8 days | 9,692,889 |
| July 18, 2023 | 138,851 | 5.8 days | 4,899,353 |
| February 3, 2022 | 137,794 | 9.4 days | 12,787,099 |
| June 26, 2023 | 120,822 | 6.1 days | 5,728,488 |
| December 23, 2022 | 84,234 | 2 days | 684,942 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
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