County annual report · FIPS 13017
2020 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 134th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2431st 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 Ben Hill 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 | February 6, 2020 18:45 | February 7, 2020 04:15 | 9h 30m | 791 | 1,113 |
| 2 | November 30, 2020 05:30 | November 30, 2020 22:30 | 17h | 744 | 4,935 |
| 3 | June 19, 2020 23:15 | June 20, 2020 02:00 | 2h 45m | 688 | 1,791 |
| 4 | July 23, 2020 19:00 | July 23, 2020 21:30 | 2h 30m | 688 | 395 |
| 5 | August 5, 2020 22:00 | August 5, 2020 23:15 | 1h 15m | 636 | 795 |
| 6 | January 22, 2020 15:45 | January 22, 2020 17:30 | 1h 45m | 462 | 578 |
| 7 | May 13, 2020 12:15 | May 13, 2020 18:30 | 6h 15m | 456 | 2,850 |
| 8 | August 28, 2020 16:15 | August 28, 2020 17:15 | 1h | 399 | 397 |
| 9 | September 2, 2020 18:00 | September 3, 2020 00:00 | 6h | 399 | 1,990 |
| 10 | March 26, 2020 13:45 | March 26, 2020 17:15 | 3h 30m | 344 | 432 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 20 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 Ben Hill 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 |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middle Georgia El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fitzgerald Wtr Lgt & Bond Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,643 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. Ben Hill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ben Hill 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/ben-hill-county