County annual report · FIPS 13245
2024 Richmond County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Richmond County, GA went without power for an average of 124.1 hours, a total of 14.6M customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 78th 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 Richmond 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 08:15 | October 20, 2024 23:30 | 24d 15h | 96,050 | 14.3M |
| 2 | October 27, 2024 16:15 | October 28, 2024 09:45 | 17h 30m | 3,823 | 27K |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 10:45 | January 11, 2024 03:30 | 1d 16h | 3,388 | 39K |
| 4 | October 28, 2024 11:00 | October 31, 2024 03:15 | 2d 16h | 2,343 | 3,448 |
| 5 | July 6, 2024 21:00 | July 9, 2024 03:00 | 2d 6h | 2,004 | 6,351 |
| 6 | May 6, 2024 16:15 | May 7, 2024 17:15 | 1d 1h | 1,981 | 9,676 |
| 7 | May 15, 2024 23:45 | May 16, 2024 01:00 | 1h 15m | 1,917 | 961 |
| 8 | December 10, 2024 23:15 | December 13, 2024 02:30 | 2d 3h | 1,791 | 8,886 |
| 9 | April 12, 2024 20:15 | April 13, 2024 03:45 | 7h 30m | 1,784 | 927 |
| 10 | October 24, 2024 13:00 | October 26, 2024 04:00 | 1d 15h | 1,690 | 3,731 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 102 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 Richmond 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 |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sylvania - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 117,219 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county