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2023 Whitfield County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Whitfield County, GA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 165K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 137th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2180th 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 Whitfield 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 | April 13, 2023 17:15 | April 13, 2023 21:30 | 4h 15m | 5,578 | 2,805 |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 12:15 | August 9, 2023 02:30 | 1d 14h | 5,480 | 18K |
| 3 | July 20, 2023 16:15 | July 22, 2023 15:30 | 1d 23h | 3,833 | 15K |
| 4 | August 13, 2023 21:45 | August 14, 2023 20:45 | 23h | 2,795 | 6,977 |
| 5 | August 11, 2023 21:30 | August 11, 2023 23:45 | 2h 15m | 1,970 | 1,767 |
| 6 | March 3, 2023 17:30 | March 5, 2023 01:45 | 1d 8h | 1,759 | 8,033 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 07:00 | April 1, 2023 21:15 | 14h 15m | 1,713 | 875 |
| 8 | December 16, 2023 13:15 | December 16, 2023 18:15 | 5h | 1,526 | 1,771 |
| 9 | July 1, 2023 20:30 | July 2, 2023 15:00 | 18h 30m | 1,493 | 2,260 |
| 10 | December 3, 2023 01:15 | December 3, 2023 23:30 | 22h 15m | 1,322 | 3,420 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 90 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Whitfield 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 4.2 hrs | 2.29 | 2.7 hrs | 1.81 |
| Dalton Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,130 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. Whitfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitfield 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/whitfield-county