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2022 Towns County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Towns County, GA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Georgia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 108th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 2050th 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 Towns 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 | June 10, 2022 15:00 | June 10, 2022 15:45 | 45m | 3,814 | 2,861 |
| 2 | December 24, 2022 09:30 | December 24, 2022 23:30 | 14h | 2,907 | 2,792 |
| 3 | January 16, 2022 10:00 | January 16, 2022 22:00 | 12h | 2,230 | 6,141 |
| 4 | July 3, 2022 23:00 | July 4, 2022 06:15 | 7h 15m | 1,680 | 3,479 |
| 5 | December 6, 2022 06:15 | December 6, 2022 09:00 | 2h 45m | 1,445 | 3,974 |
| 6 | July 7, 2022 01:00 | July 7, 2022 05:45 | 4h 45m | 1,101 | 3,351 |
| 7 | February 23, 2022 08:00 | February 23, 2022 10:30 | 2h 30m | 800 | 864 |
| 8 | August 7, 2022 17:45 | August 7, 2022 20:15 | 2h 30m | 546 | 812 |
| 9 | December 29, 2022 17:15 | December 30, 2022 00:00 | 6h 45m | 364 | 343 |
| 10 | March 31, 2022 02:00 | March 31, 2022 06:30 | 4h 30m | 258 | 572 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 16 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Towns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2022 | 8.5 hrs | 5.46 | 6.0 hrs | 3.23 |
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 ÷ 13,058 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. Towns County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towns 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/towns-county