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2021 Decatur County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Decatur County, GA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1563rd 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 Decatur 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 | September 29, 2021 20:00 | September 29, 2021 22:00 | 2h | 3,167 | 6,334 |
| 2 | September 24, 2021 04:45 | September 24, 2021 14:15 | 9h 30m | 2,686 | 6,884 |
| 3 | August 14, 2021 23:30 | August 15, 2021 15:15 | 15h 45m | 2,664 | 1,703 |
| 4 | August 1, 2021 20:00 | August 2, 2021 05:45 | 9h 45m | 1,808 | 2,860 |
| 5 | February 7, 2021 11:15 | February 7, 2021 15:45 | 4h 30m | 1,376 | 1,204 |
| 6 | August 16, 2021 14:45 | August 17, 2021 14:30 | 23h 45m | 1,264 | 3,318 |
| 7 | February 15, 2021 21:45 | February 16, 2021 08:30 | 10h 45m | 1,096 | 2,418 |
| 8 | June 11, 2021 07:00 | June 11, 2021 10:30 | 3h 30m | 907 | 2,426 |
| 9 | October 28, 2021 12:45 | October 29, 2021 03:15 | 14h 30m | 850 | 1,580 |
| 10 | June 19, 2021 19:30 | June 20, 2021 21:15 | 1d 1h | 734 | 963 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 51 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Decatur 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 |
| Grady Electric Membership Corp | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 2.95 | 4.0 hrs | 2.82 |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Three Notch Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Brinson - (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 90% of Georgia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,925 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. Decatur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Decatur 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/decatur-county