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2024 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 110th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1496th 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 Polk 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 | January 4, 2024 14:15 | January 4, 2024 19:45 | 5h 30m | 5,409 | 1,380 |
| 2 | October 30, 2024 13:15 | October 30, 2024 14:15 | 1h | 2,419 | 807 |
| 3 | May 1, 2024 22:15 | May 2, 2024 08:15 | 10h | 1,609 | 10K |
| 4 | July 30, 2024 23:45 | July 31, 2024 20:45 | 21h | 1,575 | 3,752 |
| 5 | April 10, 2024 23:15 | April 12, 2024 04:00 | 1d 4h | 1,455 | 15K |
| 6 | February 27, 2024 18:15 | March 3, 2024 03:15 | 4d 9h | 1,295 | 5,586 |
| 7 | May 8, 2024 18:15 | May 9, 2024 22:15 | 1d 4h | 1,251 | 1,272 |
| 8 | July 9, 2024 00:15 | July 9, 2024 14:45 | 14h 30m | 1,121 | 1,188 |
| 9 | January 28, 2024 04:00 | January 28, 2024 13:30 | 9h 30m | 1,095 | 1,946 |
| 10 | February 23, 2024 09:00 | February 23, 2024 10:45 | 1h 45m | 1,090 | 529 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 63 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Polk 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 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2024 | 2.7 hrs | 1.61 | 2.0 hrs | 1.46 |
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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county