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2021 Jefferson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Jefferson County, GA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2086th 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 Jefferson 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 31, 2021 17:30 | September 1, 2021 03:00 | 9h 30m | 1,095 | 1,315 |
| 2 | June 7, 2021 20:15 | June 8, 2021 17:30 | 21h 15m | 638 | 2,737 |
| 3 | July 8, 2021 04:45 | July 8, 2021 12:45 | 8h | 611 | 1,151 |
| 4 | March 1, 2021 14:45 | March 1, 2021 16:30 | 1h 45m | 553 | 280 |
| 5 | June 21, 2021 01:15 | June 21, 2021 20:00 | 18h 45m | 467 | 947 |
| 6 | August 18, 2021 02:30 | August 18, 2021 04:30 | 2h | 467 | 934 |
| 7 | June 12, 2021 20:45 | June 13, 2021 00:30 | 3h 45m | 344 | 865 |
| 8 | May 17, 2021 21:45 | May 18, 2021 03:15 | 5h 30m | 342 | 379 |
| 9 | July 21, 2021 14:00 | July 21, 2021 14:45 | 45m | 342 | 256 |
| 10 | July 16, 2021 07:45 | July 16, 2021 09:30 | 1h 45m | 314 | 85 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 21 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 Jefferson 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 |
| Washington Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 4.0 hrs | - | 4.0 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 8,747 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county