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2022 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Georgia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1354th 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 Polk 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 | December 23, 2022 05:15 | December 25, 2022 07:15 | 2d 2h | 2,667 | 19K |
| 2 | December 3, 2022 14:15 | December 3, 2022 15:15 | 1h | 1,921 | 962 |
| 3 | October 28, 2022 12:15 | October 28, 2022 15:45 | 3h 30m | 1,913 | 1,104 |
| 4 | August 9, 2022 12:45 | August 9, 2022 21:45 | 9h | 1,745 | 1,106 |
| 5 | October 13, 2022 09:15 | October 13, 2022 21:45 | 12h 30m | 1,626 | 2,171 |
| 6 | December 28, 2022 07:15 | December 28, 2022 17:45 | 10h 30m | 1,575 | 2,417 |
| 7 | March 16, 2022 23:15 | March 17, 2022 06:15 | 7h | 1,565 | 6,418 |
| 8 | August 3, 2022 13:00 | August 4, 2022 07:45 | 18h 45m | 1,510 | 4,258 |
| 9 | January 27, 2022 13:30 | January 28, 2022 00:15 | 10h 45m | 1,448 | 723 |
| 10 | September 13, 2022 12:15 | September 14, 2022 00:15 | 12h | 1,276 | 2,325 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 77 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Polk 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 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2022 | 2.1 hrs | 1.29 | 2.1 hrs | 1.29 |
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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county