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2024 Towns County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Towns County, GA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 103rd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1371st 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 Towns 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 | July 4, 2024 21:45 | July 4, 2024 23:30 | 1h 45m | 3,363 | 4,216 |
| 2 | May 27, 2024 09:45 | May 28, 2024 18:00 | 1d 8h | 3,125 | 20K |
| 3 | September 26, 2024 22:45 | September 27, 2024 22:45 | 1d | 2,022 | 10K |
| 4 | July 9, 2024 09:30 | July 9, 2024 16:15 | 6h 45m | 1,778 | 3,587 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 09:00 | January 9, 2024 20:15 | 11h 15m | 1,748 | 4,459 |
| 6 | August 21, 2024 05:00 | August 21, 2024 06:15 | 1h 15m | 1,708 | 1,553 |
| 7 | August 4, 2024 06:30 | August 4, 2024 07:15 | 45m | 1,499 | 1,124 |
| 8 | April 19, 2024 11:15 | April 19, 2024 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,326 | 1,658 |
| 9 | April 11, 2024 00:30 | April 11, 2024 05:30 | 5h | 1,143 | 2,252 |
| 10 | May 2, 2024 13:45 | May 2, 2024 19:30 | 5h 45m | 1,099 | 1,401 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 36 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Towns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2024 | 9.8 hrs | 4.79 | 6.2 hrs | 3.86 |
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 ÷ 13,058 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. Towns County has data for 2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Towns 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/towns-county