County annual report · FIPS 13227
2023 Pickens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pickens County, GA went without power for an average of 32.1 hours, a total of 547K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 212th 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 Pickens 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 15:30 | July 27, 2023 00:45 | 6d 9h | 10,740 | 429K |
| 2 | June 14, 2023 21:00 | June 14, 2023 21:15 | 15m | 3,006 | 752 |
| 3 | April 29, 2023 01:45 | April 29, 2023 07:00 | 5h 15m | 1,837 | 3,652 |
| 4 | May 28, 2023 16:15 | May 29, 2023 00:00 | 7h 45m | 1,820 | 3,132 |
| 5 | June 5, 2023 16:45 | June 5, 2023 19:00 | 2h 15m | 1,690 | 1,158 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 11:30 | April 2, 2023 12:00 | 1d | 1,473 | 11K |
| 7 | April 30, 2023 20:45 | May 1, 2023 03:30 | 6h 45m | 1,463 | 3,279 |
| 8 | August 1, 2023 08:45 | August 2, 2023 00:00 | 15h 15m | 1,345 | 998 |
| 9 | October 5, 2023 12:15 | October 5, 2023 12:30 | 15m | 1,270 | 318 |
| 10 | July 2, 2023 22:00 | July 3, 2023 08:45 | 10h 45m | 1,219 | 3,786 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 91 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Pickens 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 |
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 ÷ 17,031 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county