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2020 Habersham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Habersham County, GA went without power for an average of 16.3 hours, a total of 558K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 510th 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 Habersham 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 09:15 | November 4, 2020 00:30 | 5d 15h | 14,772 | 417K |
| 2 | May 5, 2020 23:00 | May 6, 2020 02:00 | 3h | 7,614 | 6,857 |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 02:15 | April 15, 2020 03:00 | 2d | 5,731 | 65K |
| 4 | September 21, 2020 12:00 | September 21, 2020 16:30 | 4h 30m | 4,710 | 2,952 |
| 5 | October 10, 2020 21:45 | October 14, 2020 22:45 | 4d 1h | 1,773 | 15K |
| 6 | October 26, 2020 13:15 | October 26, 2020 18:30 | 5h 15m | 1,396 | 2,454 |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 12:15 | May 22, 2020 20:00 | 7h 45m | 1,368 | 668 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 20:45 | January 12, 2020 20:15 | 23h 30m | 1,318 | 6,365 |
| 9 | July 10, 2020 17:15 | July 10, 2020 19:15 | 2h | 1,094 | 1,215 |
| 10 | February 8, 2020 17:30 | February 9, 2020 01:15 | 7h 45m | 995 | 3,033 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 49 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Habersham 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 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 42.7 hrs | 3.61 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp,habershamemc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 34,189 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. Habersham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Habersham 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/habersham-county