County annual report · FIPS 13057
2019 Cherokee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cherokee County, GA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 140th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2580th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cherokee County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 16, 2019 08:30 | October 17, 2019 01:00 | 16h 30m | 3,240 | 5,850 |
| 2 | August 14, 2019 21:15 | August 15, 2019 07:45 | 10h 30m | 2,679 | 1,997 |
| 3 | August 19, 2019 16:00 | August 20, 2019 22:15 | 1d 6h | 2,570 | 17K |
| 4 | October 22, 2019 10:15 | October 22, 2019 20:30 | 10h 15m | 1,818 | 2,135 |
| 5 | September 30, 2019 12:15 | September 30, 2019 21:45 | 9h 30m | 1,737 | 1,394 |
| 6 | December 22, 2019 23:15 | December 23, 2019 21:30 | 22h 15m | 1,711 | 5,518 |
| 7 | February 11, 2019 03:00 | February 11, 2019 04:00 | 1h | 1,469 | 1,042 |
| 8 | June 22, 2019 05:15 | June 24, 2019 09:15 | 2d 4h | 1,468 | 3,470 |
| 9 | November 26, 2019 05:15 | November 27, 2019 00:30 | 19h 15m | 1,381 | 767 |
| 10 | March 31, 2019 08:15 | March 31, 2019 09:45 | 1h 30m | 1,379 | 623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 109 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Cherokee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.48 | 2.1 hrs | 1.21 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 15.5 hrs | 3.92 | 9.4 hrs | 3.56 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2018 | 72 min | 1.05 | 48 min | 0.88 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 31 min | 0.50 | 31 min | 0.50 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Georgia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 178,437 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee County, GA annual power outage report, 2019, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/georgia/cherokee-county