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2021 Banks County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Banks County, GA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1964th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Banks County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2021 11:30 | May 5, 2021 17:45 | 1d 6h | 1,089 | 4,715 |
| 2 | August 18, 2021 20:30 | August 18, 2021 21:30 | 1h | 620 | 619 |
| 3 | September 21, 2021 11:30 | September 21, 2021 16:00 | 4h 30m | 532 | 578 |
| 4 | October 14, 2021 22:15 | October 15, 2021 04:45 | 6h 30m | 461 | 1,854 |
| 5 | December 23, 2021 14:15 | December 23, 2021 17:00 | 2h 45m | 459 | 1,262 |
| 6 | June 6, 2021 19:00 | June 6, 2021 23:45 | 4h 45m | 452 | 2,147 |
| 7 | December 30, 2021 05:30 | December 30, 2021 11:30 | 6h | 450 | 579 |
| 8 | May 12, 2021 12:45 | May 12, 2021 18:15 | 5h 30m | 435 | 369 |
| 9 | April 22, 2021 06:45 | April 22, 2021 09:30 | 2h 45m | 429 | 818 |
| 10 | August 17, 2021 13:15 | August 18, 2021 02:45 | 13h 30m | 379 | 1,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 28 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Banks County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.28 | 2.4 hrs | 1.25 |
| Jackson Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2021 | 66 min | 0.96 | 60 min | 0.93 |
| Hart Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 81 min | 0.92 | 72 min | 0.89 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of Georgia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,560 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. Banks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Banks County, GA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/georgia/banks-county