County annual report · FIPS 13051
2023 Chatham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chatham County, GA went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 971st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chatham County, 2023
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 30, 2023 05:45 | September 2, 2023 17:30 | 3d 11h | 37,181 | 653K |
| 2 | March 22, 2023 12:15 | April 2, 2023 20:45 | 11d 8h | 12,801 | 9,588 |
| 3 | August 6, 2023 23:30 | August 12, 2023 09:15 | 5d 9h | 12,653 | 88K |
| 4 | April 26, 2023 01:30 | April 27, 2023 02:45 | 1d 1h | 6,239 | 40K |
| 5 | December 17, 2023 00:45 | December 18, 2023 22:15 | 1d 21h | 5,733 | 36K |
| 6 | June 7, 2023 11:30 | June 10, 2023 09:15 | 2d 21h | 4,650 | 13K |
| 7 | July 31, 2023 00:45 | August 1, 2023 07:00 | 1d 6h | 4,492 | 9,655 |
| 8 | August 14, 2023 01:00 | August 18, 2023 04:45 | 4d 3h | 4,320 | 14K |
| 9 | April 29, 2023 15:45 | May 3, 2023 03:15 | 3d 11h | 3,931 | 43K |
| 10 | June 22, 2023 12:00 | June 24, 2023 07:15 | 1d 19h | 3,579 | 3,584 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 148 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Chatham County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 6.1 hrs | 1.75 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 |
| Canoochee Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Georgia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 143,708 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. Chatham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chatham County, GA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/georgia/chatham-county