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2019 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 110th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2241st 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 Columbia 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 | July 30, 2019 13:45 | July 30, 2019 16:00 | 2h 15m | 25,337 | 6,347 |
| 2 | June 24, 2019 07:15 | June 25, 2019 13:15 | 1d 6h | 8,278 | 9,910 |
| 3 | March 3, 2019 22:45 | March 4, 2019 10:00 | 11h 15m | 5,299 | 5,826 |
| 4 | February 12, 2019 21:45 | February 13, 2019 03:15 | 5h 30m | 4,997 | 2,309 |
| 5 | June 20, 2019 20:00 | June 21, 2019 13:45 | 17h 45m | 2,819 | 14K |
| 6 | July 31, 2019 13:45 | August 1, 2019 05:45 | 16h | 2,384 | 4,418 |
| 7 | March 2, 2019 23:45 | March 3, 2019 01:00 | 1h 15m | 2,034 | 1,379 |
| 8 | December 18, 2019 14:15 | December 18, 2019 20:15 | 6h | 1,803 | 1,351 |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 06:45 | October 31, 2019 13:00 | 6h 15m | 1,705 | 449 |
| 10 | April 15, 2019 07:15 | April 15, 2019 18:15 | 11h | 1,635 | 2,490 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 63 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.82 | 2.0 hrs | 1.48 |
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 ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county