County annual report · FIPS 13089
2020 DeKalb County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in DeKalb County, GA went without power for an average of 25.1 hours, a total of 4.6M customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 342nd 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 DeKalb 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 03:30 | November 7, 2020 06:45 | 9d 3h | 139,779 | 3.2M |
| 2 | July 28, 2020 13:15 | August 10, 2020 07:15 | 12d 18h | 21,152 | 103K |
| 3 | May 26, 2020 07:45 | May 29, 2020 02:45 | 2d 19h | 15,141 | 13K |
| 4 | November 21, 2020 11:15 | November 22, 2020 12:30 | 1d 1h | 14,206 | 19K |
| 5 | August 10, 2020 09:15 | August 12, 2020 06:15 | 1d 21h | 13,025 | 49K |
| 6 | September 16, 2020 01:00 | September 21, 2020 01:30 | 5d | 12,061 | 172K |
| 7 | March 31, 2020 08:45 | April 3, 2020 02:00 | 2d 17h | 9,763 | 31K |
| 8 | February 6, 2020 04:45 | February 9, 2020 03:30 | 2d 22h | 7,877 | 37K |
| 9 | October 14, 2020 11:00 | October 15, 2020 03:15 | 16h 15m | 7,876 | 3,018 |
| 10 | April 12, 2020 12:00 | April 15, 2020 01:45 | 2d 13h | 7,702 | 29K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 166 reached 100+ customers, 86 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 DeKalb 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 |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | 2.11 | 1.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.32 | 83 min | 0.96 |
| City of Norcross- (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 182,341 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. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb 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/dekalb-county