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2020 Forsyth County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Forsyth County, GA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 376K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 106th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1952nd 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 Forsyth 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 2, 2020 08:00 | 4d | 23,657 | 317K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 11:30 | July 23, 2020 02:30 | 1d 15h | 5,885 | 3,074 |
| 3 | November 4, 2020 10:45 | November 4, 2020 11:00 | 15m | 4,388 | 1,097 |
| 4 | June 27, 2020 15:30 | June 29, 2020 09:15 | 1d 17h | 3,249 | 7,276 |
| 5 | October 5, 2020 12:15 | October 6, 2020 01:15 | 13h | 2,175 | 621 |
| 6 | August 8, 2020 01:45 | August 8, 2020 06:00 | 4h 15m | 946 | 980 |
| 7 | July 14, 2020 12:45 | July 15, 2020 03:15 | 14h 30m | 936 | 523 |
| 8 | October 21, 2020 12:30 | October 22, 2020 00:15 | 11h 45m | 909 | 286 |
| 9 | November 19, 2020 12:45 | November 20, 2020 02:45 | 14h | 716 | 957 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 22:45 | July 7, 2020 01:15 | 2h 30m | 708 | 1,770 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 73 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Forsyth 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 |
| 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 ÷ 134,644 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. Forsyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forsyth 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/forsyth-county