County annual report · FIPS 13317
2019 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 108th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2226th 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 Wilkes 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 | June 22, 2019 01:30 | June 22, 2019 16:00 | 14h 30m | 878 | 811 |
| 2 | June 23, 2019 20:45 | June 24, 2019 02:45 | 6h | 760 | 2,903 |
| 3 | June 20, 2019 19:15 | June 20, 2019 22:00 | 2h 45m | 420 | 810 |
| 4 | September 4, 2019 16:45 | September 4, 2019 18:00 | 1h 15m | 415 | 519 |
| 5 | April 26, 2019 19:30 | April 26, 2019 20:00 | 30m | 292 | 121 |
| 6 | July 5, 2019 23:15 | July 6, 2019 01:45 | 2h 30m | 281 | 444 |
| 7 | April 14, 2019 18:00 | April 14, 2019 23:00 | 5h | 280 | 463 |
| 8 | May 4, 2019 18:15 | May 5, 2019 00:30 | 6h 15m | 203 | 449 |
| 9 | May 14, 2019 04:15 | May 14, 2019 04:45 | 30m | 198 | 99 |
| 10 | January 20, 2019 11:30 | January 20, 2019 15:15 | 3h 45m | 151 | 110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 2.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.76 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county