County annual report · FIPS 13317
2020 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Georgia average 7.4 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1145th 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 Wilkes 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 | August 3, 2020 21:45 | August 4, 2020 09:45 | 12h | 963 | 3,684 |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 19:00 | July 21, 2020 21:45 | 2h 45m | 757 | 1,398 |
| 3 | March 1, 2020 13:45 | March 1, 2020 14:30 | 45m | 618 | 155 |
| 4 | June 20, 2020 21:30 | June 22, 2020 17:30 | 1d 20h | 618 | 25K |
| 5 | June 27, 2020 22:15 | June 28, 2020 18:15 | 20h | 497 | 3,791 |
| 6 | August 26, 2020 20:15 | August 26, 2020 20:45 | 30m | 405 | 203 |
| 7 | December 24, 2020 22:45 | December 28, 2020 17:00 | 3d 18h | 404 | 2,705 |
| 8 | July 25, 2020 18:45 | July 25, 2020 20:45 | 2h | 369 | 255 |
| 9 | January 12, 2020 01:30 | January 12, 2020 11:15 | 9h 45m | 311 | 1,150 |
| 10 | August 20, 2020 00:15 | August 20, 2020 02:00 | 1h 45m | 299 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 5.0 hrs | 2.85 | 4.5 hrs | 2.77 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county