County annual report · FIPS 13223
2020 Paulding County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Paulding County, GA went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 745K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1135th 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 Paulding 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 06:45 | November 4, 2020 05:15 | 5d 22h | 29,999 | 630K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 21:30 | January 13, 2020 05:30 | 1d 8h | 5,969 | 36K |
| 3 | August 21, 2020 11:15 | August 23, 2020 01:45 | 1d 14h | 3,274 | 7,194 |
| 4 | April 15, 2020 02:30 | April 15, 2020 05:15 | 2h 45m | 2,919 | 4,255 |
| 5 | May 2, 2020 14:00 | May 2, 2020 17:30 | 3h 30m | 2,811 | 4,324 |
| 6 | March 31, 2020 15:00 | April 1, 2020 03:00 | 12h | 2,214 | 4,051 |
| 7 | September 17, 2020 08:15 | September 18, 2020 03:15 | 19h | 1,474 | 4,775 |
| 8 | January 21, 2020 00:45 | January 21, 2020 07:00 | 6h 15m | 1,116 | 814 |
| 9 | August 20, 2020 20:15 | August 21, 2020 09:15 | 13h | 1,034 | 1,550 |
| 10 | December 14, 2020 03:15 | December 14, 2020 07:15 | 4h | 1,018 | 1,100 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 65 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Paulding 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 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | 2020 | 13.4 hrs | 2.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.36 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2020 | 18.3 hrs | 2.64 | 1.8 hrs | 1.31 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 6.3 hrs | 0.82 | 34 min | 0.49 |
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 ÷ 111,785 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. Paulding County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Paulding 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/paulding-county