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2015 Banks County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Banks County, GA went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (Georgia average 1.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 224th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Banks County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 4, 2015 03:15 | October 5, 2015 19:15 | 1d 16h | 3,654 | 47K |
| 2 | February 17, 2015 00:15 | February 19, 2015 18:15 | 2d 18h | 2,628 | 73K |
| 3 | October 10, 2015 13:45 | October 10, 2015 15:00 | 1h 15m | 767 | 345 |
| 4 | August 11, 2015 11:15 | August 11, 2015 20:00 | 8h 45m | 603 | 1,554 |
| 5 | April 23, 2015 02:45 | April 23, 2015 06:45 | 4h | 591 | 1,456 |
| 6 | April 23, 2015 07:45 | April 23, 2015 08:15 | 30m | 573 | 144 |
| 7 | February 16, 2015 22:45 | February 16, 2015 23:00 | 15m | 563 | 141 |
| 8 | May 26, 2015 22:00 | May 27, 2015 05:15 | 7h 15m | 519 | 547 |
| 9 | August 10, 2015 19:30 | August 11, 2015 08:30 | 13h | 502 | 1,252 |
| 10 | August 30, 2015 18:00 | August 30, 2015 22:45 | 4h 45m | 431 | 1,079 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Banks County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.30 |
| Jackson Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2015 | 16.2 hrs | 2.36 | 67 min | 0.94 |
| Hart Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 7.3 hrs | 1.69 | 82 min | 0.94 |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,560 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. Banks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Banks County, GA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/georgia/banks-county