County annual report · FIPS 13089
2019 DeKalb County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in DeKalb County, GA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 827th 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 DeKalb 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 29, 2019 12:30 | August 10, 2019 06:15 | 11d 17h | 14,839 | 125K |
| 2 | June 22, 2019 00:00 | June 30, 2019 00:45 | 8d | 14,416 | 162K |
| 3 | September 10, 2019 06:00 | September 12, 2019 02:45 | 1d 20h | 10,761 | 45K |
| 4 | July 17, 2019 12:45 | July 19, 2019 06:00 | 1d 17h | 8,710 | 28K |
| 5 | September 20, 2019 09:15 | September 24, 2019 10:45 | 4d 1h | 7,737 | 3,814 |
| 6 | January 20, 2019 05:45 | January 22, 2019 03:00 | 1d 21h | 6,687 | 22K |
| 7 | February 24, 2019 13:15 | February 25, 2019 06:45 | 17h 30m | 6,451 | 17K |
| 8 | May 30, 2019 07:00 | June 2, 2019 06:45 | 2d 23h | 5,785 | 9,335 |
| 9 | September 18, 2019 11:45 | September 19, 2019 04:15 | 16h 30m | 5,735 | 16K |
| 10 | April 14, 2019 13:00 | April 21, 2019 08:00 | 6d 19h | 5,664 | 84K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 161 reached 100+ customers, 77 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 DeKalb 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 |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.92 | 1.8 hrs | 1.50 |
| Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | 2018 | 63 min | 0.86 | 63 min | 0.86 |
| City of Norcross- (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 182,341 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. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb 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/dekalb-county