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2021 Walker County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Walker County, GA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2179th 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 Walker 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 4, 2021 22:00 | February 5, 2021 00:45 | 2h 45m | 13,372 | 17K |
| 2 | February 4, 2021 14:45 | February 4, 2021 19:00 | 4h 15m | 10,290 | 22K |
| 3 | March 17, 2021 20:15 | March 18, 2021 22:30 | 1d 2h | 1,713 | 4,719 |
| 4 | January 6, 2021 01:45 | January 6, 2021 03:00 | 1h 15m | 1,630 | 816 |
| 5 | August 24, 2021 05:15 | August 24, 2021 06:30 | 1h 15m | 1,566 | 1,955 |
| 6 | August 24, 2021 23:30 | August 25, 2021 01:45 | 2h 15m | 1,562 | 2,343 |
| 7 | March 25, 2021 15:30 | March 25, 2021 20:00 | 4h 30m | 1,414 | 1,235 |
| 8 | June 22, 2021 04:15 | June 22, 2021 11:15 | 7h | 1,311 | 3,677 |
| 9 | October 21, 2021 14:30 | October 21, 2021 15:15 | 45m | 1,309 | 328 |
| 10 | July 14, 2021 13:00 | July 14, 2021 16:15 | 3h 15m | 1,298 | 336 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 40 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Walker 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 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2021 | 73 min | 0.60 | 59 min | 0.53 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.38 | 2.2 hrs | 1.38 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Chickamauga | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of LaFayette - (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 ÷ 39,350 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. Walker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Walker 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/walker-county