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2023 Towns County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Towns County, GA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 110th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1577th 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 Towns 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 | March 3, 2023 19:15 | March 4, 2023 18:45 | 23h 30m | 6,088 | 16K |
| 2 | January 3, 2023 21:45 | January 4, 2023 00:45 | 3h | 1,677 | 1,281 |
| 3 | August 1, 2023 14:15 | August 1, 2023 23:45 | 9h 30m | 1,624 | 2,645 |
| 4 | December 25, 2023 16:00 | December 25, 2023 23:00 | 7h | 1,535 | 942 |
| 5 | May 21, 2023 05:00 | May 21, 2023 06:15 | 1h 15m | 1,463 | 1,829 |
| 6 | July 1, 2023 22:30 | July 3, 2023 18:30 | 1d 20h | 1,312 | 8,160 |
| 7 | September 7, 2023 20:45 | September 7, 2023 21:45 | 1h | 1,106 | 828 |
| 8 | January 19, 2023 14:15 | January 19, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 1,084 | 813 |
| 9 | January 12, 2023 19:30 | January 13, 2023 04:00 | 8h 30m | 1,010 | 2,029 |
| 10 | January 4, 2023 10:00 | January 4, 2023 16:30 | 6h 30m | 877 | 3,615 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 28 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Towns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2023 | 10.7 hrs | 4.78 | 5.4 hrs | 3.19 |
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 ÷ 13,058 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. Towns County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towns 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/towns-county