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2021 Union County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Union County, GA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2141st 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 Union 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 | February 23, 2021 18:45 | February 23, 2021 19:30 | 45m | 5,432 | 1,359 |
| 2 | October 28, 2021 15:00 | October 28, 2021 23:00 | 8h | 4,805 | 7,854 |
| 3 | January 21, 2021 18:15 | January 21, 2021 19:30 | 1h 15m | 3,039 | 2,280 |
| 4 | January 30, 2021 01:15 | January 30, 2021 04:00 | 2h 45m | 1,296 | 1,629 |
| 5 | December 6, 2021 17:15 | December 6, 2021 18:45 | 1h 30m | 933 | 618 |
| 6 | August 31, 2021 13:30 | September 1, 2021 15:30 | 1d 2h | 848 | 5,528 |
| 7 | August 17, 2021 15:15 | August 17, 2021 16:45 | 1h 30m | 815 | 1,206 |
| 8 | September 20, 2021 23:00 | September 21, 2021 03:45 | 4h 45m | 786 | 1,809 |
| 9 | August 18, 2021 01:00 | August 18, 2021 04:00 | 3h | 645 | 1,191 |
| 10 | October 17, 2021 01:30 | October 17, 2021 03:45 | 2h 15m | 517 | 541 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 52 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 Union 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 ÷ 25,706 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. Union County has data for 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county