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2016 Banks County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Banks County, GA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1722nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Banks County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 24, 2016 11:15 | February 25, 2016 01:00 | 13h 45m | 1,494 | 1,870 |
| 2 | February 3, 2016 12:45 | February 3, 2016 16:15 | 3h 30m | 722 | 1,619 |
| 3 | April 27, 2016 14:15 | April 27, 2016 18:45 | 4h 30m | 618 | 564 |
| 4 | February 15, 2016 09:15 | February 15, 2016 09:30 | 15m | 522 | 131 |
| 5 | August 26, 2016 22:45 | August 27, 2016 02:00 | 3h 15m | 500 | 627 |
| 6 | September 7, 2016 23:30 | September 8, 2016 01:30 | 2h | 482 | 820 |
| 7 | February 5, 2016 00:30 | February 5, 2016 01:00 | 30m | 434 | 127 |
| 8 | January 16, 2016 14:15 | January 16, 2016 23:45 | 9h 30m | 396 | 324 |
| 9 | April 30, 2016 18:00 | April 30, 2016 19:30 | 1h 30m | 386 | 369 |
| 10 | December 29, 2016 17:00 | December 29, 2016 17:45 | 45m | 254 | 191 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 20 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 9.7 hrs | 1.63 | 2.3 hrs | 1.43 |
| Jackson Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2016 | 70 min | 1.14 | 70 min | 1.14 |
| Hart Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 55 min | 1.02 | 55 min | 1.02 |
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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/georgia/banks-county