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2020 Banks County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Banks County, GA went without power for an average of 15.0 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 159 Georgia counties and 557th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Banks County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2020 06:15 | April 15, 2020 00:00 | 1d 17h | 4,455 | 45K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 09:15 | November 2, 2020 00:30 | 3d 15h | 3,195 | 57K |
| 3 | September 21, 2020 11:45 | September 21, 2020 23:45 | 12h | 1,977 | 542 |
| 4 | March 6, 2020 17:15 | March 6, 2020 23:15 | 6h | 872 | 588 |
| 5 | September 17, 2020 08:45 | September 18, 2020 01:45 | 17h | 629 | 2,201 |
| 6 | October 28, 2020 10:30 | October 28, 2020 19:30 | 9h | 610 | 1,083 |
| 7 | May 7, 2020 19:30 | May 11, 2020 16:45 | 3d 21h | 567 | 36K |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 23:45 | January 12, 2020 07:30 | 7h 45m | 565 | 1,352 |
| 9 | January 8, 2020 10:45 | January 8, 2020 11:15 | 30m | 505 | 253 |
| 10 | September 1, 2020 11:15 | September 1, 2020 17:30 | 6h 15m | 501 | 568 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Banks County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 8.8 hrs | 1.92 | 2.4 hrs | 1.33 |
| Jackson Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2020 | 4.0 hrs | 1.63 | 70 min | 1.12 |
| Hart Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 12.5 hrs | 1.99 | 1.8 hrs | 1.00 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 88% of Georgia's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,560 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. Banks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Banks County, GA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/georgia/banks-county