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2022 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Georgia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1741st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 3, 2022 05:15 | January 5, 2022 06:15 | 2d 1h | 10,588 | 76K |
| 2 | May 6, 2022 20:30 | May 7, 2022 20:45 | 1d | 4,382 | 12K |
| 3 | July 8, 2022 14:45 | July 8, 2022 16:15 | 1h 30m | 3,888 | 982 |
| 4 | December 23, 2022 05:15 | December 26, 2022 19:45 | 3d 14h | 3,500 | 77K |
| 5 | January 16, 2022 03:15 | January 16, 2022 07:00 | 3h 45m | 2,868 | 4,580 |
| 6 | September 19, 2022 13:45 | September 20, 2022 02:00 | 12h 15m | 2,231 | 605 |
| 7 | July 5, 2022 07:30 | July 5, 2022 19:00 | 11h 30m | 1,864 | 2,418 |
| 8 | June 16, 2022 13:45 | June 16, 2022 21:45 | 8h | 1,509 | 413 |
| 9 | July 7, 2022 22:30 | July 8, 2022 06:45 | 8h 15m | 1,263 | 913 |
| 10 | February 25, 2022 14:30 | February 25, 2022 19:15 | 4h 45m | 1,228 | 631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 69 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.60 | 2.4 hrs | 1.27 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 | 72 min | 0.91 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of Georgia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, GA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/georgia/columbia-county