County annual report · FIPS 13233
2020 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 24.7 hours, a total of 472K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 350th 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 Polk 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 07:15 | November 3, 2020 21:45 | 5d 14h | 11,874 | 259K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 20:45 | January 14, 2020 06:30 | 2d 9h | 6,298 | 65K |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 01:00 | April 13, 2020 19:45 | 18h 45m | 5,329 | 44K |
| 4 | April 23, 2020 11:15 | April 24, 2020 02:45 | 15h 30m | 3,237 | 16K |
| 5 | July 2, 2020 12:15 | July 2, 2020 13:45 | 1h 30m | 2,211 | 556 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 20:30 | April 14, 2020 21:30 | 1d 1h | 1,883 | 7,390 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 12:45 | January 11, 2020 19:15 | 6h 30m | 1,655 | 3,161 |
| 8 | July 17, 2020 20:45 | July 18, 2020 12:00 | 15h 15m | 1,602 | 6,121 |
| 9 | March 6, 2020 15:45 | March 6, 2020 23:45 | 8h | 1,596 | 441 |
| 10 | September 20, 2020 07:30 | September 20, 2020 08:30 | 1h | 1,552 | 1,552 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 64 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county