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2020 Effingham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Effingham County, GA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1774th 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 Effingham 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 | November 4, 2020 03:15 | November 4, 2020 12:15 | 9h | 3,977 | 2,022 |
| 2 | September 17, 2020 02:00 | September 18, 2020 02:15 | 1d | 3,534 | 4,912 |
| 3 | August 18, 2020 19:30 | August 19, 2020 05:15 | 9h 45m | 2,796 | 4,542 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 01:45 | April 13, 2020 16:15 | 14h 30m | 2,291 | 4,574 |
| 5 | December 24, 2020 22:45 | December 25, 2020 12:15 | 13h 30m | 2,184 | 2,358 |
| 6 | January 17, 2020 07:15 | January 17, 2020 16:15 | 9h | 2,026 | 2,203 |
| 7 | August 6, 2020 21:00 | August 7, 2020 11:00 | 14h | 1,713 | 2,943 |
| 8 | September 29, 2020 20:15 | September 30, 2020 03:15 | 7h | 1,693 | 3,202 |
| 9 | June 30, 2020 20:15 | July 1, 2020 02:45 | 6h 30m | 1,535 | 793 |
| 10 | February 7, 2020 09:00 | February 7, 2020 21:00 | 12h | 1,531 | 7,782 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Effingham 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 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,148 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham 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/effingham-county