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2021 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1852nd 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 Wilkes 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 | August 17, 2021 19:45 | August 17, 2021 20:30 | 45m | 2,495 | 1,174 |
| 2 | September 15, 2021 21:00 | September 16, 2021 12:00 | 15h | 604 | 166 |
| 3 | March 18, 2021 16:15 | March 18, 2021 17:15 | 1h | 544 | 155 |
| 4 | May 3, 2021 20:00 | May 4, 2021 03:00 | 7h | 464 | 563 |
| 5 | March 28, 2021 17:15 | March 28, 2021 23:00 | 5h 45m | 403 | 476 |
| 6 | October 7, 2021 08:00 | October 7, 2021 09:45 | 1h 45m | 372 | 336 |
| 7 | June 21, 2021 11:45 | June 21, 2021 12:00 | 15m | 369 | 92 |
| 8 | December 10, 2021 16:15 | December 10, 2021 17:30 | 1h 15m | 369 | 461 |
| 9 | January 28, 2021 20:00 | January 28, 2021 21:45 | 1h 45m | 362 | 365 |
| 10 | September 9, 2021 10:45 | September 9, 2021 14:15 | 3h 30m | 331 | 665 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.76 | 2.4 hrs | 1.68 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county