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2020 Newton County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newton County, GA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 132nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2376th 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 Newton 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 | February 28, 2020 21:15 | February 28, 2020 22:00 | 45m | 10,891 | 5,447 |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 08:30 | October 31, 2020 00:30 | 1d 16h | 2,499 | 11K |
| 3 | February 9, 2020 19:45 | February 9, 2020 23:30 | 3h 45m | 2,106 | 2,642 |
| 4 | June 22, 2020 19:45 | June 22, 2020 22:45 | 3h | 1,885 | 4,521 |
| 5 | August 8, 2020 16:00 | August 8, 2020 21:00 | 5h | 1,813 | 1,366 |
| 6 | February 6, 2020 11:45 | February 6, 2020 23:15 | 11h 30m | 1,715 | 3,064 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 22:15 | July 19, 2020 13:45 | 15h 30m | 1,548 | 998 |
| 8 | February 7, 2020 05:45 | February 7, 2020 16:00 | 10h 15m | 1,056 | 5,565 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 05:00 | April 13, 2020 10:30 | 5h 30m | 928 | 4,504 |
| 10 | March 31, 2020 16:15 | April 1, 2020 00:00 | 7h 45m | 920 | 2,472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Newton 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 |
| Central Georgia El Member Corp | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.34 | 87 min | 1.13 |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | 2.11 | 1.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.32 | 83 min | 0.96 |
| City of Covington - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mansfield - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oxford - (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 ÷ 49,305 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county