County annual report · FIPS 13291
2020 Union County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, GA went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 286K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 717th 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 Union 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 06:00 | November 1, 2020 16:45 | 3d 10h | 9,435 | 143K |
| 2 | September 25, 2020 02:30 | September 25, 2020 17:45 | 15h 15m | 5,269 | 11K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 12:45 | January 13, 2020 23:00 | 2d 10h | 3,753 | 29K |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 21:30 | December 25, 2020 09:00 | 11h 30m | 3,627 | 7,725 |
| 5 | August 25, 2020 08:15 | August 25, 2020 10:45 | 2h 30m | 2,957 | 7,354 |
| 6 | October 11, 2020 04:30 | October 11, 2020 10:00 | 5h 30m | 2,680 | 3,824 |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 01:15 | April 14, 2020 02:00 | 1d | 2,506 | 24K |
| 8 | September 17, 2020 08:30 | September 17, 2020 16:00 | 7h 30m | 2,460 | 1,046 |
| 9 | May 21, 2020 09:15 | May 21, 2020 10:30 | 1h 15m | 2,141 | 2,083 |
| 10 | June 21, 2020 22:30 | June 22, 2020 17:30 | 19h | 1,557 | 4,745 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 58 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Union 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 ÷ 25,706 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. Union County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county