County annual report · FIPS 13085
2016 Dawson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dawson County, GA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1473rd 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 Dawson 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 | September 16, 2016 16:00 | September 16, 2016 17:15 | 1h 15m | 2,983 | 1,813 |
| 2 | June 28, 2016 01:15 | June 28, 2016 16:30 | 15h 15m | 1,612 | 4,950 |
| 3 | September 30, 2016 12:15 | September 30, 2016 14:45 | 2h 30m | 1,331 | 3,328 |
| 4 | July 8, 2016 22:00 | July 9, 2016 13:45 | 15h 45m | 947 | 1,412 |
| 5 | July 14, 2016 21:00 | July 15, 2016 09:00 | 12h | 798 | 3,258 |
| 6 | December 7, 2016 16:30 | December 7, 2016 18:30 | 2h | 702 | 695 |
| 7 | June 8, 2016 11:45 | June 8, 2016 14:45 | 3h | 597 | 760 |
| 8 | August 14, 2016 11:45 | August 14, 2016 14:15 | 2h 30m | 592 | 1,185 |
| 9 | September 19, 2016 00:45 | September 19, 2016 03:15 | 2h 30m | 455 | 1,126 |
| 10 | December 29, 2016 18:00 | December 30, 2016 05:00 | 11h | 391 | 680 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 29 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Dawson 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 7.5 hrs | 3.34 | 7.5 hrs | 3.34 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2016 | 63 min | 1.01 | 59 min | 0.96 |
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 ÷ 18,801 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. Dawson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county