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2021 Dawson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dawson County, GA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1996th 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 Dawson 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 4, 2021 12:30 | August 4, 2021 14:15 | 1h 45m | 3,729 | 2,799 |
| 2 | July 23, 2021 20:15 | July 24, 2021 00:30 | 4h 15m | 2,363 | 3,059 |
| 3 | January 26, 2021 03:15 | January 26, 2021 14:30 | 11h 15m | 1,086 | 2,182 |
| 4 | May 10, 2021 20:00 | May 11, 2021 00:30 | 4h 30m | 1,075 | 1,087 |
| 5 | July 22, 2021 19:30 | July 22, 2021 22:00 | 2h 30m | 924 | 486 |
| 6 | November 2, 2021 09:30 | November 2, 2021 13:15 | 3h 45m | 874 | 699 |
| 7 | November 8, 2021 16:00 | November 8, 2021 17:30 | 1h 30m | 829 | 208 |
| 8 | September 10, 2021 16:30 | September 10, 2021 18:00 | 1h 30m | 687 | 176 |
| 9 | September 10, 2021 19:15 | September 10, 2021 19:30 | 15m | 687 | 172 |
| 10 | October 20, 2021 04:15 | October 20, 2021 15:15 | 11h | 624 | 230 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 51 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Dawson 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 8.4 hrs | 3.54 | 8.4 hrs | 3.54 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2021 | 39 min | 0.79 | 39 min | 0.79 |
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 ÷ 18,801 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. Dawson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county