County annual report · FIPS 13057
2020 Cherokee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cherokee County, GA went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 908K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1380th 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 Cherokee 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 | October 29, 2020 07:15 | November 5, 2020 03:45 | 6d 20h | 33,434 | 711K |
| 2 | June 27, 2020 12:15 | June 30, 2020 03:15 | 2d 15h | 16,875 | 25K |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 09:15 | July 23, 2020 02:30 | 1d 17h | 5,965 | 3,707 |
| 4 | August 6, 2020 12:30 | August 7, 2020 03:15 | 14h 45m | 4,078 | 3,885 |
| 5 | May 22, 2020 11:15 | May 23, 2020 01:15 | 14h | 3,254 | 5,092 |
| 6 | May 5, 2020 05:00 | May 5, 2020 08:15 | 3h 15m | 3,185 | 909 |
| 7 | August 30, 2020 23:00 | August 31, 2020 22:30 | 23h 30m | 3,110 | 5,099 |
| 8 | April 7, 2020 12:30 | April 7, 2020 22:45 | 10h 15m | 3,023 | 857 |
| 9 | August 10, 2020 15:00 | August 11, 2020 05:15 | 14h 15m | 2,738 | 3,203 |
| 10 | July 10, 2020 03:30 | July 11, 2020 09:15 | 1d 5h | 2,649 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 124 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 49.4 hrs | 4.99 | 8.7 hrs | 3.42 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.37 | 33 min | 0.65 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 6.3 hrs | 0.82 | 34 min | 0.49 |
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 ÷ 178,437 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county