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2021 Towns County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Towns County, GA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 109th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2325th 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 Towns 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 | September 19, 2021 13:15 | September 19, 2021 14:30 | 1h 15m | 3,595 | 2,698 |
| 2 | October 28, 2021 14:30 | October 28, 2021 20:00 | 5h 30m | 2,066 | 4,784 |
| 3 | November 22, 2021 16:00 | November 22, 2021 18:15 | 2h 15m | 2,030 | 2,162 |
| 4 | August 12, 2021 16:15 | August 12, 2021 17:15 | 1h | 1,064 | 533 |
| 5 | August 23, 2021 19:45 | August 23, 2021 20:00 | 15m | 610 | 153 |
| 6 | August 5, 2021 10:30 | August 5, 2021 11:15 | 45m | 590 | 443 |
| 7 | July 17, 2021 22:30 | July 17, 2021 23:00 | 30m | 481 | 240 |
| 8 | August 31, 2021 15:30 | September 1, 2021 07:45 | 16h 15m | 437 | 1,177 |
| 9 | July 7, 2021 19:30 | July 7, 2021 21:45 | 2h 15m | 328 | 635 |
| 10 | August 17, 2021 15:30 | August 18, 2021 11:45 | 20h 15m | 311 | 1,760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 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 Towns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 3.35 | 4.4 hrs | 3.10 |
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 ÷ 13,058 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. Towns County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towns 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/towns-county