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2020 Heard County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Heard County, GA went without power for an average of 22.0 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 391st 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 Heard 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 07:00 | November 2, 2020 01:45 | 3d 18h | 3,952 | 97K |
| 2 | March 31, 2020 14:15 | April 2, 2020 20:30 | 2d 6h | 1,948 | 12K |
| 3 | October 14, 2020 18:45 | October 14, 2020 20:00 | 1h 15m | 825 | 231 |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 20:00 | January 14, 2020 02:15 | 2d 6h | 674 | 5,788 |
| 5 | November 6, 2020 12:15 | November 6, 2020 12:30 | 15m | 595 | 149 |
| 6 | November 10, 2020 12:15 | November 10, 2020 12:30 | 15m | 595 | 149 |
| 7 | November 3, 2020 02:15 | November 3, 2020 02:30 | 15m | 593 | 148 |
| 8 | November 3, 2020 12:15 | November 3, 2020 12:30 | 15m | 593 | 148 |
| 9 | August 20, 2020 00:00 | August 20, 2020 11:00 | 11h | 586 | 1,794 |
| 10 | February 13, 2020 11:15 | February 13, 2020 16:45 | 5h 30m | 500 | 390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Heard 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 |
| Diverse Power Incorporated | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 2.50 | 3.6 hrs | 2.21 |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | 2020 | 15.2 hrs | 2.88 | 3.8 hrs | 1.48 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2020 | 18.3 hrs | 2.64 | 1.8 hrs | 1.31 |
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 ÷ 5,960 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. Heard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Heard 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/heard-county