County annual report · FIPS 13317
2015 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,304 customer-hours (Georgia average 1.8 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 2105th 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 Wilkes 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 | March 24, 2015 00:30 | March 24, 2015 01:00 | 30m | 507 | 243 |
| 2 | September 7, 2015 13:30 | September 7, 2015 20:00 | 6h 30m | 334 | 839 |
| 3 | October 4, 2015 08:15 | October 4, 2015 15:30 | 7h 15m | 199 | 800 |
| 4 | June 18, 2015 20:00 | June 18, 2015 21:00 | 1h | 139 | 62 |
| 5 | March 30, 2015 05:00 | March 30, 2015 09:30 | 4h 30m | 94 | 224 |
| 6 | April 26, 2015 22:00 | April 27, 2015 02:00 | 4h | 94 | 294 |
| 7 | August 6, 2015 21:00 | August 7, 2015 03:45 | 6h 45m | 93 | 371 |
| 8 | September 8, 2015 23:30 | September 9, 2015 01:30 | 2h | 61 | 122 |
| 9 | October 11, 2015 13:00 | October 11, 2015 14:45 | 1h 45m | 42 | 74 |
| 10 | July 27, 2015 19:00 | July 27, 2015 21:00 | 2h | 33 | 42 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2015 | 6.4 hrs | 3.18 | 2.5 hrs | 2.14 |
| 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 2015; 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, 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/wilkes-county