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2023 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1345th 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 Wilkes 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 23:45 | July 23, 2023 21:15 | 2d 21h | 1,115 | 18K |
| 2 | January 12, 2023 23:15 | January 13, 2023 13:00 | 13h 45m | 698 | 2,069 |
| 3 | August 6, 2023 19:15 | August 7, 2023 01:30 | 6h 15m | 627 | 878 |
| 4 | November 8, 2023 14:15 | November 8, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 581 | 330 |
| 5 | July 30, 2023 03:15 | July 30, 2023 07:30 | 4h 15m | 426 | 1,314 |
| 6 | July 9, 2023 10:30 | July 9, 2023 12:00 | 1h 30m | 412 | 515 |
| 7 | July 11, 2023 19:15 | July 11, 2023 19:45 | 30m | 412 | 206 |
| 8 | March 11, 2023 00:30 | March 11, 2023 03:30 | 3h | 410 | 1,230 |
| 9 | January 25, 2023 15:00 | January 25, 2023 15:45 | 45m | 407 | 305 |
| 10 | April 2, 2023 20:30 | April 2, 2023 21:30 | 1h | 388 | 368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 27 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2023 | 7.6 hrs | 3.13 | 4.5 hrs | 2.73 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county