County annual report · FIPS 13241
2020 Rabun County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rabun County, GA went without power for an average of 82.4 hours, a total of 833K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 159 Georgia counties and 86th 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 Rabun 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 28, 2020 23:15 | November 3, 2020 18:45 | 5d 19h | 15,422 | 683K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 00:30 | April 15, 2020 00:30 | 2d | 2,702 | 22K |
| 3 | December 21, 2020 22:00 | December 22, 2020 00:15 | 2h 15m | 2,065 | 522 |
| 4 | April 6, 2020 19:15 | April 7, 2020 00:45 | 5h 30m | 1,814 | 1,105 |
| 5 | October 11, 2020 03:45 | October 12, 2020 18:45 | 1d 15h | 1,808 | 15K |
| 6 | August 15, 2020 00:15 | August 16, 2020 03:00 | 1d 2h | 1,658 | 4,125 |
| 7 | December 24, 2020 09:00 | December 25, 2020 10:30 | 1d 1h | 1,650 | 10K |
| 8 | November 6, 2020 22:15 | November 7, 2020 00:00 | 1h 45m | 1,490 | 1,387 |
| 9 | August 14, 2020 10:30 | August 14, 2020 11:15 | 45m | 1,405 | 780 |
| 10 | March 24, 2020 21:00 | March 25, 2020 00:30 | 3h 30m | 1,400 | 2,071 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 91 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Rabun 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 19.4 hrs | 5.16 | 7.4 hrs | 3.70 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 42.7 hrs | 3.61 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp,habershamemc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,115 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. Rabun County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rabun 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/rabun-county