County annual report · FIPS 13237
2020 Putnam County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Putnam County, GA went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1051st 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 Putnam 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 | May 28, 2020 03:45 | May 28, 2020 08:15 | 4h 30m | 4,878 | 9,645 |
| 2 | July 7, 2020 04:45 | July 7, 2020 05:45 | 1h | 2,491 | 1,650 |
| 3 | June 25, 2020 06:30 | June 25, 2020 10:45 | 4h 15m | 2,269 | 5,721 |
| 4 | April 30, 2020 19:00 | April 30, 2020 20:15 | 1h 15m | 2,247 | 564 |
| 5 | November 4, 2020 10:45 | November 4, 2020 13:45 | 3h | 2,047 | 794 |
| 6 | November 30, 2020 00:30 | November 30, 2020 02:30 | 2h | 1,572 | 2,358 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 23:15 | July 19, 2020 06:45 | 7h 30m | 1,566 | 1,880 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 09:00 | October 29, 2020 21:30 | 12h 30m | 1,449 | 7,603 |
| 9 | May 24, 2020 23:30 | May 25, 2020 04:00 | 4h 30m | 1,401 | 1,044 |
| 10 | November 26, 2020 12:00 | November 26, 2020 16:30 | 4h 30m | 1,246 | 5,594 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 57 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Putnam 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (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 ÷ 10,183 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county