County annual report · FIPS 13121
2016 Fulton County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fulton County, GA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 157 Georgia counties and 936th 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 Fulton 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 | April 28, 2016 12:00 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 4d 6h | 23,337 | 244K |
| 2 | August 25, 2016 11:30 | August 28, 2016 00:30 | 2d 13h | 16,865 | 25K |
| 3 | July 5, 2016 12:45 | July 9, 2016 07:30 | 3d 18h | 14,070 | 86K |
| 4 | July 19, 2016 11:45 | July 22, 2016 10:00 | 2d 22h | 11,101 | 33K |
| 5 | June 17, 2016 10:30 | June 20, 2016 23:15 | 3d 12h | 10,539 | 37K |
| 6 | March 24, 2016 11:45 | March 26, 2016 11:45 | 2d | 10,265 | 35K |
| 7 | May 24, 2016 06:00 | May 26, 2016 08:15 | 2d 2h | 9,969 | 5,166 |
| 8 | January 13, 2016 11:15 | January 14, 2016 08:45 | 21h 30m | 9,835 | 3,184 |
| 9 | May 23, 2016 10:15 | May 24, 2016 05:00 | 18h 45m | 9,771 | 4,253 |
| 10 | March 1, 2016 12:15 | March 3, 2016 01:45 | 1d 13h | 9,153 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 185 reached 100+ customers, 86 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Fulton 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 |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.54 | 1.6 hrs | 1.54 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | 2016 | 82 min | 1.14 | 71 min | 1.02 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2016 | 63 min | 1.01 | 59 min | 0.96 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2016 | 39 min | 0.60 | 34 min | 0.57 |
| City of College Park - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Palmetto - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Point - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairburn - (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 ÷ 383,737 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. Fulton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fulton 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/fulton-county