County annual report · FIPS 13089
2016 DeKalb County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in DeKalb County, GA went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 157 Georgia counties and 605th 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 DeKalb 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 | July 5, 2016 12:45 | July 8, 2016 09:00 | 2d 20h | 23,595 | 109K |
| 2 | March 24, 2016 12:45 | March 26, 2016 02:30 | 1d 13h | 22,352 | 34K |
| 3 | August 18, 2016 04:45 | August 20, 2016 10:00 | 2d 5h | 18,318 | 109K |
| 4 | July 10, 2016 16:30 | July 13, 2016 09:00 | 2d 16h | 18,224 | 59K |
| 5 | February 3, 2016 06:15 | February 6, 2016 05:30 | 2d 23h | 13,659 | 18K |
| 6 | January 23, 2016 03:15 | January 24, 2016 04:15 | 1d 1h | 10,838 | 14K |
| 7 | July 19, 2016 12:00 | July 23, 2016 08:45 | 3d 20h | 10,752 | 64K |
| 8 | February 23, 2016 04:00 | February 27, 2016 03:30 | 3d 23h | 10,474 | 84K |
| 9 | April 6, 2016 23:30 | April 10, 2016 03:15 | 3d 3h | 9,985 | 32K |
| 10 | June 14, 2016 10:30 | June 15, 2016 08:45 | 22h 15m | 8,094 | 30K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 215 reached 100+ customers, 78 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 DeKalb 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 |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.25 | 1.6 hrs | 1.25 |
| Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | 2016 | 1.5 hrs | 1.14 | 68 min | 0.94 |
| City of Norcross- (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 182,341 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. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb 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/dekalb-county