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2024 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 172.8 hours, a total of 11.6M customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 53rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 26, 2024 01:30 | October 18, 2024 12:00 | 22d 10h | 71,235 | 11.4M |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 11:15 | January 11, 2024 02:30 | 1d 15h | 8,430 | 31K |
| 3 | November 15, 2024 14:15 | November 16, 2024 02:30 | 12h 15m | 3,969 | 8,628 |
| 4 | June 21, 2024 21:15 | June 21, 2024 22:00 | 45m | 2,799 | 703 |
| 5 | April 12, 2024 19:15 | April 13, 2024 03:30 | 8h 15m | 2,476 | 1,842 |
| 6 | October 23, 2024 10:30 | October 26, 2024 03:30 | 2d 17h | 2,307 | 3,832 |
| 7 | January 18, 2024 22:00 | January 19, 2024 01:00 | 3h | 2,223 | 567 |
| 8 | November 6, 2024 09:45 | November 9, 2024 08:00 | 2d 22h | 1,996 | 2,467 |
| 9 | August 13, 2024 21:45 | August 14, 2024 02:45 | 5h | 1,708 | 2,861 |
| 10 | April 16, 2024 13:15 | April 16, 2024 21:45 | 8h 30m | 1,630 | 513 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 81 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 25.3 hrs | 2.07 | 2.1 hrs | 1.02 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 172.0 hrs | 3.85 | 1.8 hrs | 1.39 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, GA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/georgia/columbia-county