County annual report · FIPS 13055
2020 Chattooga County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chattooga County, GA went without power for an average of 20.4 hours, a total of 256K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 422nd 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 Chattooga 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 12, 2020 19:00 | April 16, 2020 04:15 | 3d 9h | 5,676 | 120K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 07:00 | November 4, 2020 15:15 | 6d 8h | 5,294 | 65K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 20:15 | January 12, 2020 19:45 | 23h 30m | 2,689 | 14K |
| 4 | May 5, 2020 04:00 | May 5, 2020 21:00 | 17h | 1,872 | 2,286 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 20:45 | July 23, 2020 01:00 | 1d 4h | 1,842 | 10K |
| 6 | June 29, 2020 21:15 | June 30, 2020 11:15 | 14h | 1,686 | 2,224 |
| 7 | August 15, 2020 09:15 | August 15, 2020 21:45 | 12h 30m | 1,607 | 3,653 |
| 8 | November 16, 2020 07:15 | November 16, 2020 22:15 | 15h | 1,554 | 848 |
| 9 | October 15, 2020 15:45 | October 15, 2020 16:45 | 1h | 1,547 | 1,547 |
| 10 | May 1, 2020 13:00 | May 1, 2020 22:00 | 9h | 1,473 | 771 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 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 Chattooga 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 8.8 hrs | 3.00 | 2.4 hrs | 2.00 |
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 ÷ 12,575 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. Chattooga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chattooga 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/chattooga-county