County annual report · FIPS 13227
2020 Pickens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pickens County, GA went without power for an average of 32.3 hours, a total of 551K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 254th 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 Pickens 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 01:15 | November 3, 2020 23:00 | 5d 21h | 11,602 | 438K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 21:30 | January 13, 2020 13:15 | 1d 15h | 2,455 | 18K |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 00:45 | April 14, 2020 22:00 | 1d 21h | 2,426 | 9,989 |
| 4 | May 15, 2020 15:30 | May 15, 2020 20:45 | 5h 15m | 2,020 | 1,546 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 13:15 | July 21, 2020 22:00 | 8h 45m | 1,765 | 4,271 |
| 6 | October 11, 2020 01:00 | October 11, 2020 09:30 | 8h 30m | 1,734 | 1,168 |
| 7 | May 18, 2020 01:00 | May 18, 2020 05:30 | 4h 30m | 1,607 | 4,056 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 04:15 | June 11, 2020 00:15 | 20h | 1,473 | 575 |
| 9 | January 14, 2020 13:45 | January 14, 2020 17:15 | 3h 30m | 1,360 | 877 |
| 10 | August 19, 2020 23:45 | August 20, 2020 09:30 | 9h 45m | 1,242 | 3,571 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 72 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 Pickens 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 49.4 hrs | 4.99 | 8.7 hrs | 3.42 |
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 ÷ 17,031 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county