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2021 Houston County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Houston County, GA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 146th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2760th 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 Houston 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 | November 25, 2021 05:30 | November 25, 2021 18:30 | 13h | 6,918 | 32K |
| 2 | May 3, 2021 20:00 | May 4, 2021 00:45 | 4h 45m | 2,032 | 2,286 |
| 3 | August 3, 2021 18:45 | August 3, 2021 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1,854 | 1,291 |
| 4 | August 27, 2021 00:15 | August 27, 2021 09:00 | 8h 45m | 1,685 | 3,588 |
| 5 | March 13, 2021 01:00 | March 13, 2021 03:15 | 2h 15m | 1,495 | 752 |
| 6 | September 21, 2021 23:15 | September 22, 2021 04:15 | 5h | 1,287 | 1,702 |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 18:15 | December 11, 2021 19:15 | 1h | 1,050 | 787 |
| 8 | May 21, 2021 05:45 | May 21, 2021 21:45 | 16h | 1,024 | 327 |
| 9 | December 30, 2021 20:15 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 4h | 991 | 540 |
| 10 | October 26, 2021 12:45 | October 26, 2021 13:15 | 30m | 927 | 233 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 52 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Houston 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 |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | 2021 | 6.8 hrs | 0.96 | 62 min | 0.83 |
| Middle Georgia El 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 ÷ 118,038 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county