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2016 Forsyth County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Forsyth County, GA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 149th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 2205th 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 Forsyth 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 | December 3, 2016 08:00 | December 3, 2016 10:15 | 2h 15m | 3,019 | 2,645 |
| 2 | October 12, 2016 13:15 | October 12, 2016 17:15 | 4h | 2,997 | 754 |
| 3 | February 8, 2016 14:45 | February 8, 2016 17:45 | 3h | 1,547 | 3,481 |
| 4 | July 16, 2016 20:45 | July 17, 2016 05:15 | 8h 30m | 1,294 | 538 |
| 5 | March 2, 2016 03:00 | March 2, 2016 07:15 | 4h 15m | 543 | 2,036 |
| 6 | May 12, 2016 19:45 | May 13, 2016 03:00 | 7h 15m | 486 | 1,527 |
| 7 | April 7, 2016 03:30 | April 7, 2016 20:30 | 17h | 442 | 3,626 |
| 8 | July 15, 2016 13:15 | July 15, 2016 13:30 | 15m | 180 | 45 |
| 9 | September 19, 2016 23:30 | September 20, 2016 03:00 | 3h 30m | 151 | 474 |
| 10 | October 21, 2016 14:30 | October 21, 2016 18:00 | 3h 30m | 138 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Forsyth 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 |
| 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 ÷ 134,644 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. Forsyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forsyth 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/forsyth-county