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2024 Jefferson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Jefferson County, GA went without power for an average of 250.4 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 24th 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 Jefferson 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 23:45 | October 15, 2024 23:30 | 18d 23h | 9,662 | 2.1M |
| 2 | July 16, 2024 20:30 | July 17, 2024 16:15 | 19h 45m | 2,673 | 1,262 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 13:00 | January 10, 2024 21:00 | 1d 8h | 1,786 | 27K |
| 4 | November 6, 2024 18:15 | November 7, 2024 16:45 | 22h 30m | 843 | 3,219 |
| 5 | March 27, 2024 12:15 | March 27, 2024 17:15 | 5h | 804 | 3,526 |
| 6 | May 4, 2024 23:15 | May 5, 2024 08:30 | 9h 15m | 804 | 3,927 |
| 7 | July 17, 2024 20:30 | July 18, 2024 00:30 | 4h | 803 | 284 |
| 8 | July 6, 2024 04:15 | July 6, 2024 06:00 | 1h 45m | 802 | 1,404 |
| 9 | June 28, 2024 21:00 | June 28, 2024 22:30 | 1h 30m | 764 | 955 |
| 10 | December 29, 2024 17:45 | December 30, 2024 00:15 | 6h 30m | 742 | 360 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Jefferson 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 |
| Washington Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 115.5 hrs | - | 7.1 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 8,747 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county