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2025 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 121st worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2196th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2025
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 23, 2025 10:30 | July 24, 2025 00:00 | 13h 30m | 11,538 | 3,143 |
| 2 | June 7, 2025 23:15 | June 8, 2025 22:45 | 23h 30m | 7,813 | 30K |
| 3 | July 29, 2025 13:45 | July 30, 2025 05:15 | 15h 30m | 3,036 | 1,930 |
| 4 | August 13, 2025 15:30 | August 14, 2025 00:15 | 8h 45m | 2,766 | 1,225 |
| 5 | September 17, 2025 12:00 | September 17, 2025 12:15 | 15m | 2,260 | 565 |
| 6 | June 25, 2025 04:00 | June 26, 2025 14:00 | 1d 10h | 2,178 | 3,675 |
| 7 | July 12, 2025 08:30 | July 13, 2025 14:15 | 1d 5h | 2,160 | 6,166 |
| 8 | February 3, 2025 15:15 | February 4, 2025 00:45 | 9h 30m | 2,159 | 3,141 |
| 9 | April 6, 2025 23:15 | April 8, 2025 04:00 | 1d 4h | 1,738 | 1,422 |
| 10 | August 14, 2025 02:15 | August 14, 2025 23:45 | 21h 30m | 1,693 | 1,251 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 103 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, GA annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/georgia/columbia-county