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2021 Rabun County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rabun County, GA went without power for an average of 18.3 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 472nd 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 Rabun 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 | July 28, 2021 12:45 | July 28, 2021 20:45 | 8h | 4,938 | 2,564 |
| 2 | February 7, 2021 03:30 | February 8, 2021 01:00 | 21h 30m | 4,089 | 14K |
| 3 | January 13, 2021 21:00 | January 13, 2021 23:00 | 2h | 3,617 | 977 |
| 4 | August 17, 2021 09:30 | August 18, 2021 21:00 | 1d 11h | 2,244 | 20K |
| 5 | June 7, 2021 11:45 | June 7, 2021 13:15 | 1h 30m | 2,072 | 527 |
| 6 | January 26, 2021 03:00 | January 26, 2021 04:15 | 1h 15m | 2,066 | 1,548 |
| 7 | October 6, 2021 21:30 | October 7, 2021 22:15 | 1d | 1,886 | 14K |
| 8 | August 31, 2021 17:30 | September 1, 2021 19:15 | 1d 1h | 1,569 | 11K |
| 9 | July 2, 2021 21:30 | July 3, 2021 01:15 | 3h 45m | 1,412 | 3,464 |
| 10 | May 29, 2021 04:15 | May 29, 2021 15:15 | 11h | 1,299 | 5,255 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 106 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Rabun 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 9.8 hrs | 3.63 | 7.7 hrs | 3.25 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.74 | 2.6 hrs | 1.74 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp,habershamemc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,115 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. Rabun County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rabun 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/rabun-county