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2020 Towns County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Towns County, GA went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1204th 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 Towns 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 07:45 | October 31, 2020 20:15 | 2d 12h | 3,939 | 38K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 22:45 | January 13, 2020 23:15 | 2d | 2,036 | 18K |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 01:00 | April 13, 2020 16:45 | 15h 45m | 1,734 | 4,368 |
| 4 | June 11, 2020 11:15 | June 11, 2020 16:30 | 5h 15m | 1,408 | 1,086 |
| 5 | April 16, 2020 06:45 | April 16, 2020 11:30 | 4h 45m | 1,087 | 4,627 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 15:00 | January 11, 2020 18:45 | 3h 45m | 1,083 | 869 |
| 7 | June 6, 2020 23:15 | June 7, 2020 06:00 | 6h 45m | 855 | 1,078 |
| 8 | August 10, 2020 17:30 | August 10, 2020 19:15 | 1h 45m | 654 | 824 |
| 9 | April 9, 2020 07:15 | April 9, 2020 21:15 | 14h | 612 | 512 |
| 10 | May 13, 2020 12:15 | May 13, 2020 14:15 | 2h | 257 | 258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 28 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Towns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (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 ÷ 13,058 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. Towns County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towns 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/georgia/towns-county