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2023 Richmond County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Richmond County, GA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 271K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 138th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2182nd 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 Richmond 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 22:30 | July 23, 2023 01:00 | 2d 2h | 8,149 | 62K |
| 2 | July 2, 2023 17:30 | July 3, 2023 14:45 | 21h 15m | 4,240 | 7,021 |
| 3 | June 5, 2023 14:15 | June 5, 2023 14:30 | 15m | 3,177 | 794 |
| 4 | June 25, 2023 20:00 | June 26, 2023 18:45 | 22h 45m | 3,164 | 6,142 |
| 5 | June 6, 2023 20:15 | June 8, 2023 22:45 | 2d 2h | 3,021 | 13K |
| 6 | June 29, 2023 10:15 | June 30, 2023 01:30 | 15h 15m | 2,704 | 3,519 |
| 7 | September 22, 2023 18:45 | September 22, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 2,375 | 2,970 |
| 8 | September 24, 2023 04:15 | September 24, 2023 19:15 | 15h | 2,331 | 1,225 |
| 9 | January 4, 2023 01:45 | January 5, 2023 06:15 | 1d 4h | 2,186 | 19K |
| 10 | May 8, 2023 12:15 | May 10, 2023 02:45 | 1d 14h | 1,967 | 3,006 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 112 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Richmond 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 |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sylvania - (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 n/a of Georgia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 117,219 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county