County annual report · FIPS 13083
2020 Dade County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dade County, GA went without power for an average of 13.2 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 620th 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 Dade 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 03:00 | April 13, 2020 19:45 | 16h 45m | 5,275 | 31K |
| 2 | October 5, 2020 14:00 | October 5, 2020 18:15 | 4h 15m | 2,518 | 2,423 |
| 3 | April 30, 2020 11:15 | April 30, 2020 14:45 | 3h 30m | 2,068 | 608 |
| 4 | June 3, 2020 22:00 | June 3, 2020 23:45 | 1h 45m | 1,364 | 1,457 |
| 5 | May 23, 2020 03:45 | May 23, 2020 12:15 | 8h 30m | 1,361 | 4,747 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 20:45 | April 16, 2020 00:15 | 2d 3h | 1,308 | 25K |
| 7 | October 29, 2020 06:45 | November 1, 2020 20:45 | 3d 14h | 1,075 | 9,262 |
| 8 | April 23, 2020 05:45 | April 24, 2020 02:45 | 21h | 942 | 1,589 |
| 9 | August 19, 2020 17:15 | August 20, 2020 01:15 | 8h | 757 | 2,453 |
| 10 | October 2, 2020 03:45 | October 2, 2020 16:45 | 13h | 646 | 1,176 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Dade 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 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2020 | 19.9 hrs | 1.47 | 86 min | 0.71 |
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 ÷ 7,648 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. Dade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dade 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/dade-county