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2016 Effingham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Effingham County, GA went without power for an average of 62.6 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 157 Georgia counties and 40th 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 Effingham 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 12:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 1d 5h | 28,667 | 332K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 15, 2016 04:00 | 6d 5h | 22,313 | 1.3M |
| 3 | December 28, 2016 12:30 | December 28, 2016 14:30 | 2h | 3,841 | 2,882 |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 21:00 | June 19, 2016 02:15 | 1d 5h | 3,545 | 21K |
| 5 | February 12, 2016 21:30 | February 13, 2016 05:00 | 7h 30m | 2,518 | 3,214 |
| 6 | February 3, 2016 21:30 | February 4, 2016 00:30 | 3h | 2,473 | 1,996 |
| 7 | September 1, 2016 17:45 | September 4, 2016 03:00 | 2d 9h | 2,299 | 15K |
| 8 | February 16, 2016 07:30 | February 16, 2016 23:15 | 15h 45m | 2,015 | 3,421 |
| 9 | July 8, 2016 00:30 | July 8, 2016 05:30 | 5h | 1,762 | 4,042 |
| 10 | July 31, 2016 18:30 | August 1, 2016 04:30 | 10h | 1,589 | 1,839 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 33 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Effingham 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 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters 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 ÷ 27,148 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham 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/effingham-county