County annual report · FIPS 13017
2016 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 238 customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 155th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 2313th 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 Ben Hill 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 | January 15, 2016 17:30 | January 15, 2016 22:00 | 4h 30m | 28 | 81 |
| 2 | January 25, 2016 10:30 | January 25, 2016 12:30 | 2h | 8 | 4 |
| 3 | October 21, 2016 18:45 | October 21, 2016 22:00 | 3h 15m | 8 | 5 |
| 4 | December 29, 2016 17:15 | December 29, 2016 19:00 | 1h 45m | 8 | 11 |
| 5 | September 2, 2016 11:30 | September 3, 2016 00:15 | 12h 45m | 7 | 84 |
| 6 | June 1, 2016 21:00 | June 1, 2016 21:45 | 45m | 6 | 5 |
| 7 | July 9, 2016 22:00 | July 9, 2016 23:00 | 1h | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | July 15, 2016 19:30 | July 15, 2016 20:30 | 1h | 4 | 4 |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | February 24, 2016 19:15 | 2h 45m | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | October 15, 2016 10:00 | October 15, 2016 12:15 | 2h 15m | 3 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 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 Ben Hill 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 |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middle Georgia El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fitzgerald Wtr Lgt & Bond Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,643 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. Ben Hill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ben Hill 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/ben-hill-county