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2020 Whitfield County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Whitfield County, GA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 112th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2003rd 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 Whitfield 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 | April 13, 2020 00:30 | April 16, 2020 21:30 | 3d 21h | 5,895 | 76K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 05:45 | November 2, 2020 02:30 | 3d 20h | 5,734 | 51K |
| 3 | June 7, 2020 00:15 | June 7, 2020 05:00 | 4h 45m | 2,718 | 2,042 |
| 4 | April 23, 2020 09:15 | April 23, 2020 23:00 | 13h 45m | 1,580 | 4,008 |
| 5 | November 29, 2020 13:00 | November 29, 2020 15:30 | 2h 30m | 1,559 | 1,228 |
| 6 | January 21, 2020 14:15 | January 21, 2020 21:00 | 6h 45m | 1,078 | 310 |
| 7 | March 3, 2020 08:00 | March 3, 2020 18:45 | 10h 45m | 1,006 | 697 |
| 8 | September 28, 2020 02:45 | September 28, 2020 07:15 | 4h 30m | 902 | 692 |
| 9 | March 14, 2020 18:30 | March 14, 2020 21:30 | 3h | 869 | 1,308 |
| 10 | May 30, 2020 06:00 | May 30, 2020 07:00 | 1h | 807 | 807 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 62 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Whitfield 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 8.8 hrs | 3.00 | 2.4 hrs | 2.00 |
| Dalton Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,130 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. Whitfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitfield 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/whitfield-county