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2023 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 149K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 140th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2205th 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 Columbia 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 | November 8, 2023 04:45 | November 9, 2023 13:45 | 1d 9h | 9,235 | 6,335 |
| 2 | July 20, 2023 22:30 | July 22, 2023 21:15 | 1d 22h | 6,007 | 38K |
| 3 | June 6, 2023 11:15 | June 8, 2023 05:15 | 1d 18h | 2,785 | 7,497 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 03:45 | April 1, 2023 10:15 | 6h 30m | 2,681 | 693 |
| 5 | October 12, 2023 09:45 | October 12, 2023 16:45 | 7h | 2,517 | 1,509 |
| 6 | July 18, 2023 13:30 | July 20, 2023 02:30 | 1d 13h | 2,305 | 2,028 |
| 7 | August 8, 2023 22:00 | August 9, 2023 00:30 | 2h 30m | 2,151 | 1,226 |
| 8 | August 7, 2023 03:00 | August 8, 2023 16:45 | 1d 13h | 2,004 | 3,555 |
| 9 | November 2, 2023 11:15 | November 3, 2023 00:15 | 13h | 1,995 | 3,695 |
| 10 | August 10, 2023 05:30 | August 10, 2023 21:45 | 16h 15m | 1,968 | 5,526 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 69 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Columbia 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 | 1.7 hrs | 1.28 |
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 ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county