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2021 Whitfield County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Whitfield County, GA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2027th 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 Whitfield 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 | 22,179 | 30K |
| 2 | February 4, 2021 16:45 | February 4, 2021 19:00 | 2h 15m | 20,699 | 45K |
| 3 | June 24, 2021 18:15 | June 25, 2021 01:30 | 7h 15m | 2,167 | 4,733 |
| 4 | September 19, 2021 05:45 | September 20, 2021 02:00 | 20h 15m | 1,794 | 6,003 |
| 5 | August 31, 2021 09:30 | September 1, 2021 13:00 | 1d 3h | 1,713 | 9,583 |
| 6 | August 22, 2021 04:00 | August 22, 2021 07:45 | 3h 45m | 1,607 | 2,901 |
| 7 | July 20, 2021 06:15 | July 20, 2021 18:30 | 12h 15m | 1,584 | 2,496 |
| 8 | August 16, 2021 01:15 | August 16, 2021 17:15 | 16h | 1,499 | 1,002 |
| 9 | March 28, 2021 11:45 | March 29, 2021 05:45 | 18h | 1,345 | 1,935 |
| 10 | May 8, 2021 14:45 | May 8, 2021 19:00 | 4h 15m | 1,274 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 67 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Whitfield 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 1.38 | 2.2 hrs | 1.38 |
| Dalton Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,130 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. Whitfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitfield 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/whitfield-county