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2024 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 54.9 hours, a total of 414K customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 180th 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 Wilkes 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 27, 2024 06:45 | October 7, 2024 22:30 | 10d 15h | 4,252 | 383K |
| 2 | August 13, 2024 17:00 | August 13, 2024 17:30 | 30m | 3,320 | 1,515 |
| 3 | January 10, 2024 07:15 | January 10, 2024 11:00 | 3h 45m | 2,266 | 2,159 |
| 4 | August 3, 2024 21:45 | August 3, 2024 22:00 | 15m | 982 | 246 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 15:00 | January 10, 2024 03:45 | 12h 45m | 924 | 2,227 |
| 6 | July 15, 2024 22:45 | July 16, 2024 08:45 | 10h | 812 | 1,252 |
| 7 | July 24, 2024 00:00 | July 24, 2024 01:00 | 1h | 687 | 648 |
| 8 | January 10, 2024 12:15 | January 10, 2024 14:45 | 2h 30m | 625 | 168 |
| 9 | April 12, 2024 19:45 | April 13, 2024 01:15 | 5h 30m | 623 | 1,360 |
| 10 | August 30, 2024 12:15 | August 30, 2024 13:45 | 1h 30m | 620 | 623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 33 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2024 | 58.2 hrs | 4.41 | 5.0 hrs | 3.04 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county