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2020 Fulton County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fulton County, GA went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 6.2M customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 516th 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 Fulton 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 19, 2020 04:45 | November 7, 2020 05:15 | 19d | 178,832 | 4.5M |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 11:45 | January 17, 2020 07:15 | 5d 19h | 24,119 | 142K |
| 3 | June 14, 2020 13:45 | July 13, 2020 04:30 | 28d 14h | 22,262 | 182K |
| 4 | May 23, 2020 00:45 | May 30, 2020 02:30 | 7d 1h | 18,599 | 33K |
| 5 | August 2, 2020 01:15 | September 2, 2020 06:45 | 31d 5h | 17,815 | 291K |
| 6 | October 7, 2020 07:15 | October 12, 2020 06:15 | 4d 23h | 15,832 | 82K |
| 7 | September 16, 2020 11:30 | September 20, 2020 03:15 | 3d 15h | 9,869 | 91K |
| 8 | March 28, 2020 13:30 | March 31, 2020 06:45 | 2d 17h | 8,216 | 3,539 |
| 9 | April 12, 2020 22:45 | April 17, 2020 02:15 | 4d 3h | 8,060 | 44K |
| 10 | March 31, 2020 11:15 | April 2, 2020 02:45 | 1d 15h | 7,967 | 36K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 121 reached 100+ customers, 78 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 Fulton 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 |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | 2020 | 15.2 hrs | 2.88 | 3.8 hrs | 1.48 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | 2020 | 13.4 hrs | 2.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.36 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.37 | 33 min | 0.65 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 6.3 hrs | 0.82 | 34 min | 0.49 |
| City of College Park - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Palmetto - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Point - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairburn - (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 ÷ 383,737 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. Fulton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fulton 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/fulton-county