County annual report · FIPS 13073
2016 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1357th 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 Columbia 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 | May 5, 2016 12:30 | May 6, 2016 03:30 | 15h | 6,659 | 2,089 |
| 2 | April 2, 2016 21:00 | April 3, 2016 00:15 | 3h 15m | 6,541 | 5,675 |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 09:15 | February 26, 2016 01:15 | 1d 16h | 4,433 | 24K |
| 4 | March 2, 2016 17:15 | March 2, 2016 21:30 | 4h 15m | 3,880 | 979 |
| 5 | July 19, 2016 21:00 | July 20, 2016 02:30 | 5h 30m | 2,617 | 1,297 |
| 6 | June 14, 2016 13:00 | June 15, 2016 02:00 | 13h | 2,248 | 2,675 |
| 7 | August 26, 2016 09:15 | August 26, 2016 17:45 | 8h 30m | 2,152 | 576 |
| 8 | February 3, 2016 17:45 | February 3, 2016 21:00 | 3h 15m | 2,112 | 1,314 |
| 9 | July 6, 2016 19:15 | July 6, 2016 23:45 | 4h 30m | 1,928 | 1,462 |
| 10 | April 3, 2016 19:45 | April 3, 2016 21:45 | 2h | 1,919 | 3,837 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 79 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Columbia 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 1.7 hrs | 1.25 |
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 ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county