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2021 Pickens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pickens County, GA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1407th 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 Pickens 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 | March 25, 2021 18:00 | March 26, 2021 23:45 | 1d 5h | 1,161 | 3,970 |
| 2 | February 23, 2021 05:15 | February 23, 2021 18:30 | 13h 15m | 1,049 | 1,225 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 02:30 | June 21, 2021 05:45 | 3h 15m | 1,030 | 1,562 |
| 4 | July 9, 2021 05:45 | July 9, 2021 17:00 | 11h 15m | 1,021 | 1,943 |
| 5 | October 6, 2021 17:15 | October 6, 2021 19:45 | 2h 30m | 897 | 1,308 |
| 6 | June 6, 2021 01:00 | June 6, 2021 23:45 | 22h 45m | 889 | 2,325 |
| 7 | February 17, 2021 16:00 | February 17, 2021 21:15 | 5h 15m | 879 | 460 |
| 8 | February 15, 2021 20:15 | February 16, 2021 00:00 | 3h 45m | 824 | 882 |
| 9 | August 18, 2021 01:45 | August 18, 2021 02:45 | 1h | 799 | 799 |
| 10 | February 23, 2021 01:15 | February 23, 2021 04:00 | 2h 45m | 764 | 888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 73 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 Pickens 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 |
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 ÷ 17,031 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county