County annual report · FIPS 13051
2016 Chatham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chatham County, GA went without power for an average of 72.7 hours, a total of 10.4M customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 157 Georgia counties and 31st 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 Chatham 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 | October 7, 2016 03:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 1d 14h | 141,489 | 1.9M |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 28, 2016 06:15 | 19d 7h | 114,943 | 7.1M |
| 3 | September 1, 2016 22:30 | September 7, 2016 01:00 | 5d 2h | 47,986 | 1.0M |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 11:15 | June 20, 2016 00:00 | 2d 12h | 13,350 | 53K |
| 5 | July 17, 2016 07:30 | July 19, 2016 21:30 | 2d 14h | 11,748 | 47K |
| 6 | March 5, 2016 19:00 | March 6, 2016 10:45 | 15h 45m | 7,576 | 3,887 |
| 7 | June 28, 2016 10:00 | July 1, 2016 04:15 | 2d 18h | 7,532 | 32K |
| 8 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 3, 2016 09:15 | 13h 30m | 7,119 | 3,601 |
| 9 | May 3, 2016 14:45 | May 3, 2016 21:30 | 6h 45m | 7,118 | 1,791 |
| 10 | April 28, 2016 04:30 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 4d 14h | 7,117 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 147 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Chatham 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 |
| Canoochee Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 143,708 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. Chatham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chatham 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/chatham-county