County annual report · FIPS 13241
2019 Rabun County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rabun County, GA went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 456th 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 Rabun 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 | February 20, 2019 23:30 | February 21, 2019 07:00 | 7h 30m | 7,868 | 7,129 |
| 2 | March 25, 2019 13:15 | March 25, 2019 15:00 | 1h 45m | 1,785 | 448 |
| 3 | May 28, 2019 13:00 | May 28, 2019 19:15 | 6h 15m | 1,708 | 1,167 |
| 4 | December 23, 2019 04:00 | December 23, 2019 10:30 | 6h 30m | 1,660 | 5,053 |
| 5 | November 2, 2019 03:15 | November 2, 2019 04:15 | 1h | 1,403 | 992 |
| 6 | July 17, 2019 18:30 | July 17, 2019 20:30 | 2h | 1,231 | 642 |
| 7 | July 5, 2019 21:30 | July 6, 2019 02:15 | 4h 45m | 1,205 | 2,381 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 15:30 | November 1, 2019 19:45 | 1d 4h | 1,129 | 6,556 |
| 9 | February 24, 2019 14:00 | February 25, 2019 04:45 | 14h 45m | 1,116 | 5,533 |
| 10 | June 9, 2019 09:45 | June 9, 2019 17:45 | 8h | 1,113 | 2,467 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 70 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Rabun 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 33.4 hrs | 5.14 | 8.2 hrs | 3.40 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 2.15 | 2.6 hrs | 1.78 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp,habershamemc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,115 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. Rabun County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rabun 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/rabun-county