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2020 Dawson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dawson County, GA went without power for an average of 20.4 hours, a total of 384K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 421st 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 Dawson 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 07:45 | November 4, 2020 22:30 | 6d 14h | 8,646 | 336K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 13:15 | July 21, 2020 23:45 | 10h 30m | 1,391 | 454 |
| 3 | March 11, 2020 11:00 | March 11, 2020 20:45 | 9h 45m | 1,043 | 597 |
| 4 | October 11, 2020 01:00 | October 11, 2020 22:45 | 21h 45m | 1,004 | 7,090 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 05:15 | April 14, 2020 21:00 | 1d 15h | 855 | 5,389 |
| 6 | June 27, 2020 20:15 | June 28, 2020 20:15 | 1d | 695 | 1,553 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 22:00 | January 12, 2020 20:15 | 22h 15m | 663 | 4,103 |
| 8 | September 17, 2020 09:00 | September 17, 2020 22:30 | 13h 30m | 529 | 1,148 |
| 9 | August 8, 2020 04:15 | August 8, 2020 19:30 | 15h 15m | 470 | 1,270 |
| 10 | January 4, 2020 10:45 | January 4, 2020 16:00 | 5h 15m | 468 | 708 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 40 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Dawson 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 |
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 ÷ 18,801 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. Dawson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county