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2022 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Georgia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1477th 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 Wilkes 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 08:15 | January 4, 2022 22:15 | 1d 14h | 1,984 | 15K |
| 2 | April 6, 2022 21:45 | April 7, 2022 19:30 | 21h 45m | 1,185 | 5,525 |
| 3 | March 18, 2022 19:15 | March 19, 2022 07:15 | 12h | 456 | 1,086 |
| 4 | January 16, 2022 16:15 | January 16, 2022 19:15 | 3h | 408 | 411 |
| 5 | April 5, 2022 18:15 | April 5, 2022 22:15 | 4h | 408 | 1,120 |
| 6 | August 11, 2022 01:45 | August 11, 2022 12:45 | 11h | 390 | 1,804 |
| 7 | July 13, 2022 21:15 | July 14, 2022 00:15 | 3h | 339 | 685 |
| 8 | April 9, 2022 22:30 | April 10, 2022 00:15 | 1h 45m | 327 | 572 |
| 9 | April 10, 2022 02:15 | April 10, 2022 05:15 | 3h | 327 | 900 |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 16:15 | March 13, 2022 00:15 | 8h | 269 | 770 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 18 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2022 | 8.2 hrs | 2.63 | 3.9 hrs | 2.06 |
| 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 91% of Georgia's customers in 2022; 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, 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/wilkes-county