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2021 Burke County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Burke County, GA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 122nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2543rd 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 Burke 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 | August 6, 2021 16:30 | August 6, 2021 21:30 | 5h | 2,064 | 2,201 |
| 2 | October 15, 2021 04:15 | October 15, 2021 10:15 | 6h | 1,252 | 967 |
| 3 | April 24, 2021 15:45 | April 25, 2021 01:15 | 9h 30m | 932 | 2,583 |
| 4 | October 4, 2021 22:30 | October 5, 2021 05:45 | 7h 15m | 905 | 2,585 |
| 5 | November 22, 2021 19:15 | November 23, 2021 00:30 | 5h 15m | 723 | 199 |
| 6 | May 3, 2021 16:15 | May 3, 2021 16:45 | 30m | 423 | 212 |
| 7 | February 17, 2021 21:45 | February 17, 2021 23:45 | 2h | 421 | 481 |
| 8 | May 3, 2021 21:45 | May 4, 2021 00:45 | 3h | 418 | 249 |
| 9 | June 23, 2021 12:45 | June 23, 2021 15:00 | 2h 15m | 398 | 498 |
| 10 | December 11, 2021 13:00 | December 11, 2021 18:15 | 5h 15m | 396 | 673 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 20 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Burke 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 56 min | 0.84 | 56 min | 0.84 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 16,403 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. Burke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/burke-county