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2021 Richmond County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Richmond County, GA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 133rd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2658th 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 Richmond 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 | January 27, 2021 02:30 | January 27, 2021 22:45 | 20h 15m | 4,791 | 1,289 |
| 2 | May 10, 2021 11:45 | May 10, 2021 16:30 | 4h 45m | 2,295 | 1,183 |
| 3 | May 11, 2021 01:30 | May 11, 2021 05:30 | 4h | 1,956 | 729 |
| 4 | June 11, 2021 15:15 | June 13, 2021 04:45 | 1d 13h | 1,924 | 2,260 |
| 5 | June 6, 2021 01:15 | June 6, 2021 16:30 | 15h 15m | 1,416 | 1,073 |
| 6 | November 22, 2021 12:30 | November 22, 2021 16:15 | 3h 45m | 1,416 | 4,146 |
| 7 | June 14, 2021 15:45 | June 16, 2021 21:00 | 2d 5h | 1,399 | 2,128 |
| 8 | August 22, 2021 21:45 | August 23, 2021 03:15 | 5h 30m | 1,399 | 507 |
| 9 | March 1, 2021 20:45 | March 2, 2021 08:15 | 11h 30m | 1,381 | 4,508 |
| 10 | August 15, 2021 02:00 | August 15, 2021 06:00 | 4h | 1,329 | 4,108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 87 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Richmond 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 |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sylvania - (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 ÷ 117,219 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county