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2019 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1285th 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 Polk 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 | March 15, 2019 00:15 | March 15, 2019 17:15 | 17h | 2,514 | 11K |
| 2 | February 7, 2019 14:00 | February 7, 2019 19:15 | 5h 15m | 1,639 | 1,572 |
| 3 | December 3, 2019 01:15 | December 3, 2019 02:45 | 1h 30m | 1,539 | 1,591 |
| 4 | April 19, 2019 07:15 | April 20, 2019 00:45 | 17h 30m | 1,453 | 7,297 |
| 5 | August 8, 2019 06:15 | August 8, 2019 06:30 | 15m | 1,406 | 352 |
| 6 | April 7, 2019 16:30 | April 7, 2019 18:45 | 2h 15m | 1,397 | 403 |
| 7 | February 20, 2019 01:00 | February 22, 2019 17:15 | 2d 16h | 1,391 | 11K |
| 8 | December 19, 2019 16:15 | December 19, 2019 17:30 | 1h 15m | 1,316 | 1,261 |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 12:15 | October 31, 2019 23:45 | 11h 30m | 1,046 | 2,860 |
| 10 | June 29, 2019 18:45 | June 30, 2019 02:45 | 8h | 965 | 1,663 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 61 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Polk 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 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 1.48 | 1.8 hrs | 1.31 |
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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county