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2023 Cherokee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cherokee County, GA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 818K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 107th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1550th 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 Cherokee 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 | July 20, 2023 10:15 | July 27, 2023 05:45 | 6d 19h | 33,595 | 486K |
| 2 | August 17, 2023 12:45 | August 19, 2023 06:15 | 1d 17h | 8,612 | 4,209 |
| 3 | August 4, 2023 12:15 | August 5, 2023 02:00 | 13h 45m | 8,449 | 2,547 |
| 4 | May 6, 2023 12:15 | May 7, 2023 09:00 | 20h 45m | 6,689 | 3,091 |
| 5 | August 7, 2023 10:15 | August 8, 2023 08:15 | 22h | 4,847 | 13K |
| 6 | December 10, 2023 02:30 | December 10, 2023 17:45 | 15h 15m | 4,648 | 64K |
| 7 | September 25, 2023 12:15 | September 26, 2023 02:30 | 14h 15m | 4,146 | 4,413 |
| 8 | December 3, 2023 04:45 | December 3, 2023 18:00 | 13h 15m | 3,695 | 2,219 |
| 9 | August 13, 2023 19:15 | August 14, 2023 09:00 | 13h 45m | 3,472 | 8,742 |
| 10 | June 25, 2023 17:00 | June 26, 2023 23:15 | 1d 6h | 3,083 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 136 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 24.4 hrs | 4.77 | 7.2 hrs | 3.66 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 0.97 | 25 min | 0.44 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2023 | 37 min | 0.89 | 33 min | 0.85 |
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 ÷ 178,437 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county