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2021 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 124th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2553rd 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 Ben Hill 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 5, 2021 02:00 | May 5, 2021 21:15 | 19h 15m | 1,043 | 7,829 |
| 2 | April 21, 2021 18:45 | April 21, 2021 23:45 | 5h | 611 | 386 |
| 3 | July 7, 2021 14:15 | July 7, 2021 22:15 | 8h | 588 | 1,299 |
| 4 | January 2, 2021 21:15 | January 3, 2021 03:15 | 6h | 405 | 738 |
| 5 | November 29, 2021 15:30 | November 29, 2021 18:00 | 2h 30m | 350 | 868 |
| 6 | March 18, 2021 20:30 | March 19, 2021 01:00 | 4h 30m | 341 | 486 |
| 7 | May 13, 2021 22:45 | May 14, 2021 00:45 | 2h | 267 | 137 |
| 8 | June 6, 2021 21:30 | June 7, 2021 00:15 | 2h 45m | 181 | 361 |
| 9 | June 7, 2021 19:00 | June 7, 2021 20:45 | 1h 45m | 159 | 159 |
| 10 | June 8, 2021 21:45 | June 8, 2021 23:15 | 1h 30m | 158 | 237 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 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 Ben Hill 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 |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middle Georgia El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fitzgerald Wtr Lgt & Bond Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,643 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. Ben Hill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ben Hill 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/ben-hill-county