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2020 Houston County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Houston County, GA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 150th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2712th 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 Houston 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 | April 13, 2020 06:00 | April 14, 2020 15:30 | 1d 9h | 5,923 | 26K |
| 2 | August 7, 2020 22:45 | August 8, 2020 00:30 | 1h 45m | 1,962 | 2,635 |
| 3 | March 7, 2020 14:00 | March 7, 2020 16:30 | 2h 30m | 1,836 | 1,379 |
| 4 | April 19, 2020 14:00 | April 20, 2020 17:30 | 1d 3h | 1,537 | 3,675 |
| 5 | July 25, 2020 18:15 | July 26, 2020 07:45 | 13h 30m | 1,477 | 2,642 |
| 6 | May 13, 2020 18:45 | May 13, 2020 19:00 | 15m | 1,251 | 313 |
| 7 | November 12, 2020 13:15 | November 12, 2020 17:30 | 4h 15m | 1,207 | 1,594 |
| 8 | September 21, 2020 14:30 | September 21, 2020 17:45 | 3h 15m | 1,162 | 1,748 |
| 9 | June 22, 2020 22:15 | June 23, 2020 01:00 | 2h 45m | 1,100 | 1,277 |
| 10 | September 16, 2020 21:30 | September 17, 2020 18:45 | 21h 15m | 1,019 | 4,211 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 68 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Houston 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 |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | 2013 | 89 min | 1.24 | 89 min | 1.24 |
| Middle Georgia El 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 ÷ 118,038 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county