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2020 Richmond County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richmond County, GA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 141K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 144th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2587th 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 Richmond 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 | November 4, 2020 10:45 | November 4, 2020 14:00 | 3h 15m | 10,789 | 5,405 |
| 2 | April 23, 2020 16:00 | April 24, 2020 22:15 | 1d 6h | 7,134 | 12K |
| 3 | June 27, 2020 23:30 | June 29, 2020 03:15 | 1d 3h | 5,188 | 15K |
| 4 | June 25, 2020 17:00 | June 26, 2020 03:45 | 10h 45m | 3,248 | 854 |
| 5 | June 23, 2020 20:00 | June 24, 2020 05:45 | 9h 45m | 2,506 | 3,733 |
| 6 | June 29, 2020 07:45 | June 29, 2020 10:45 | 3h | 2,300 | 3,111 |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 11:15 | May 22, 2020 19:15 | 8h | 2,129 | 3,358 |
| 8 | June 9, 2020 23:00 | June 11, 2020 08:00 | 1d 9h | 2,062 | 5,396 |
| 9 | August 3, 2020 20:15 | August 4, 2020 22:15 | 1d 2h | 1,890 | 3,503 |
| 10 | March 30, 2020 12:15 | March 30, 2020 21:00 | 8h 45m | 1,794 | 1,319 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 94 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Richmond 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 | 1.7 hrs | 1.21 |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sylvania - (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 ÷ 117,219 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county