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2025 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1229th 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 Wilkes 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 | May 30, 2025 14:30 | May 31, 2025 04:15 | 13h 45m | 2,760 | 13K |
| 2 | November 25, 2025 13:15 | November 25, 2025 16:15 | 3h | 2,365 | 4,947 |
| 3 | September 3, 2025 20:15 | September 3, 2025 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,933 | 2,900 |
| 4 | August 10, 2025 17:30 | August 10, 2025 23:45 | 6h 15m | 1,265 | 2,294 |
| 5 | January 11, 2025 00:30 | January 11, 2025 17:30 | 17h | 859 | 4,038 |
| 6 | August 21, 2025 20:45 | August 21, 2025 22:00 | 1h 15m | 624 | 635 |
| 7 | July 19, 2025 18:15 | July 19, 2025 19:00 | 45m | 594 | 276 |
| 8 | October 26, 2025 12:15 | October 26, 2025 14:00 | 1h 45m | 552 | 475 |
| 9 | August 16, 2025 07:00 | August 16, 2025 07:30 | 30m | 528 | 138 |
| 10 | August 16, 2025 00:30 | August 16, 2025 04:15 | 3h 45m | 515 | 677 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 37 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/wilkes-county